And I come from a small Vietnamese family. We're really close too, all ten of us.

When you grow up poor, you have to either work really hard to try and get where you want to be, or you'll just stay put.

Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.

It's a constant battle between what your heart tells you, and what your brain tells you.

We want to be seen as more than just martial artists, or bad stereotype token roles in American TV and movies.

I did whatever it takes to do stand-up. There is an abundance of material in struggling and poverty and trying to make it. There is so much humor in that, it's unlimited.

I knew comedy was the thing for me when I was the only Asian kid in high school... who failed math.

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events and online. Down with the isolation of writers I say! And long live Twitter.

You’re a good boy. I wish you didn’t have to be quite so good

There are people who refuse to say that Africa is a continent, but that doesn't remove the fact that it is a continent.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

As socialists, we are opponents of the Jews, because we see in the Hebrews the incarnation of capitalism, of the misuse of the nation's goods.

Never index your own book.

I'm at that stage in my career, especially now where I go where I am wanted.

Christmas is fun anyway. It's a myth organized over the years and gained different mythological qualities as the years go by.

I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.