A biography for Mary H.K. Choihasn’t been written yet.
“I love New York, but sometimes New York is so mean to you.”
“Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.”
“When I was small, I thought I was just cooler than my mom because of how foreign she is. She's really foreign. You'd think it would kill her to get store-bought snacks, she's that foreign.”
“Texting is incredibly anxiety-laden, but I know people who will have a full-blown panic attack if you call them. I'm one of those nightmare humans where the little mailbox has an ellipsis on it because I have 1000 unread emails. So texting is the most immediate yet least anxious of all the incredibly anxious ways that we talk to each other.”
“My brother's in comics. I work in media.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When you have tools with which to stalk everyone all the time, the most seemingly aloof person wins.”
“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.”
“Never post food on your Instagram. Nobody cares, and only old people do it.”
“Even the coolest jobs get stultifying with repetition, and the only way to break that cycle is to bring another job into the mix.”
“Rihanna's boots are too scared to look bad on Rihanna.”
“LaCroix sparkling water is absolutely delicious.”
“Wikipedia's a collaborative experiment akin to Simon Winchester's account of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary in 'The Professor and the Madman,' which outlines James Murray's mission to produce the tome in the 19th century.”
“I am anti-Halloween.”
“Jockeying for a popularity position has been a valorized teen tradition since the notion of a discrete teen stage of life was invented.”
“I have horrible shoe hang-ups. Particularly when it comes to flats.”
“When I moved to New York City from Texas at 22, amateur hour was over. As a newly grown-up person, I vowed I would wear dresses and skirts, wool trousers occasionally, and heels always.”
“If there was a button that I could push that would agog my brain to the level that I felt first seeing 'Avatar' in its entirety and another one for food pellets, I would die of starvation.”
“As a consumer, I love superheroes.”