I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
The Internet has not become the great leveller that it was once thought it could be.
The benefits and consequences of globalization have a great deal to do with whether we're intelligent and thoughtful about how we approach globalization, or whether we're blindly accepting. . . or blindly resistant.
The wider world is a click away, but whether we mean to or not, we're usually filtering it out.
A world where everyone creates content gets confusing pretty quickly without a good search engine.
Twitter is my main tool for ensuring news balance.
It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.
I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.
I really, really love China. To be honest, the food is so amazing! When I first went to Beijing and Shanghai, I actually became obsessed with soup dumplings, and would stand in lines and get them on the street. It was something that I became obsessed with and when I came back to the States, I did all this research for the best soup dumplings in the Los Angeles area and in the New York area and it was amazing to find those Asian dishes that were authentic and I can enjoy them at home.
The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature. " I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old. " This was literature.
Demonstrate to the world there is 'No Better Friend, No Worse Enemy' than a U. S. Marine.