David Henry Quotes

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback.

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

You can't throw him back because he doesn't meet the legal size limit.

If Adam had had a real hairy back, we probably wouldn't be here today.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

I'm going to set up a Commission of Inquiry, " said the Sow. "What's that?" asked Lorina."It's a way of putting things off, said the Sow, "in the hope that the problem will go away.