"I quit eating red meat a long time ago. I'm a vegetarian, but not by a moral issue or any kind of stand. I still eat dairy. And I quit eating sugar about the same time I quit eating red meat, but I eat fruit."

“That's the fun thing of casting a show. I'm a pretty strong believer that TV makes stars, not the other way around. I love the idea of having a cast where people don't associate them with too much baggage, so there's a certain amount of transparency between the character they're playing and the audience.”

“When you love something, you're gonna be the best at it.”

Source : "'New Moon' Actor Justin Chon Talks Being Human Among Vampires". Interview with Larry Carroll, www.mtv.com. October 20, 2009.

“I think that the best hope for peace and prosperity in the world is greater cooperation among nations, which in turn will be produced if both our governments and the people of our countries travel more and get to know each other better.”

“While analogies are useful, however, they can also be misleading. They smuggle in assumptions that can be wrong.”

Source : "The Great Game Then and Now". Address to the Conference on Oil and Gas in the Caspian Sea Region: Geopolitical and Regional Security, March 12, 1998.

“What I think is this: Man is responsible for a PART of global warming. MOST of it is still natural.”

Source : "An Unrepentant Prognosticator". Interview with Mari Krueger, www.gelfmagazine.com. April 24, 2007.

“When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.”

“Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.”

“Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.”