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I look most like myself... when I'm wearing my black, nerdy engineering glasses.

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Colleagues are a wonderful thing - but mentors, that's where the real work gets done.

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I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

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God bless perseverance. Because it's not easy.

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Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy.

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I guess I'm just hopelessly fascinated by the realities that you can assemble out of connected fragments.

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I was part of that group of kids growing up in the '80s under the Reagan regime, what I used to call 'living in the shadow of Dr. Manhattan,' where we would have dreams all the time that New York City was being destroyed, and that that wall of light and destruction was rolling out and would just devour our neighborhood.

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I'm an immigrant and I will stay an immigrant forever.

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When I got heartbroken at 20, it just felt like someone had spiraled a football right into my skull. At 40, it feels like someone had driven a 757 right through me.

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Stereotypes, they're sensual, cultural weapons. That's the way that we attack people. At an artistic level, stereotypes are terrible writing.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: December 31st, 1968

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