Quotes from Mary H.K. Choi

Home is where my house pants live. And they're hideous.

Learning to ride a bike in a public park means anyone can see you.

Eventually, I just want to write wavy little short stories.

I'm pretty sure I peaked at 15.

Try life as your own boss, on your own voyage. No daily commute. No salad bar at 12:15. No cc'ing about the meeting.

I'm just going to write whatever I'm going to write, and whatever shelf or section they end up on at the bookstore is just going to be that, and I'll let the marketing people pull their hair out and worry about it.

Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.

I'm a sucker when it comes to under-explored human potential and 'stuff that makes you be better.'

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

You are overwhelmed, overscheduled, and dejected because you keep trying to have it all - or at least most of it. You want a fulfilling job and personal life, and it's not working. The way out? Work more.

For people who deal with anxiety or depression or can't be in large social groups cognitively, emotionally, or even physically, phones help bridge the gap.

Pirates, me hearties, are the Patronus of the freelancer.

Privateers, military contractors - these aren't pirates. They have bosses. Real pirates are sellswords on missions of their own making.

Join a Bikram-flow-yoga, Flywheel, or Pilates class so you can find spiritual oneness amid grunting socialite moms. Do whatever you want. Just, please, for the love of God, stop talking about it.

Home is where I climb out of my mecha-suit-of-a-poised-persona and power down.

I just love the comics industry.

My sweet spot as a writer and, especially, as an essayist is sub-1500 words.

Never post boring back-to-back selfies.

Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.

Never post anything personal to your Facebook wall. Or anyone else's, for that matter. Only snitches and teachers look at Facebook.

I commit words to paper and the Internet for everyone to pick apart, so I think I tend to be a lot more cynical and dulled.

Nothing is more untoward than a grown man tasking another with snapping a pic expressly so he can 'flex the 'fit.' It's tacky -self-aggrandizing - and speaks to an existential neediness typically reserved for failed actresses and phenomenally successful rappers.

I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

Pedicures are disgraceful.