"It's uncommon not to get a fortune in your fortune cookie, so my mom always used to say that it was good luck to get an empty cookie. Maybe she only told me that when I was little so I wouldn't cry in case there was no fortune in mine. I don't know. But I believe it now. If you don't have a fortune handed to you, you can make your own. If I wrote one for myself, it would say: 'You have to live your own life. Don't let anyone else live it for you.'"