Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

Philosophy can make people sick.

Even before we met and long after we're both gone, my heart lives inside of yours. I'm forever and ever in love with you.

The stronger the family, stronger the society.

I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.

Push-ups are seriously the best way to tone your arms - and they tone your abs at the same time! I like to do them when I'm home watching TV or listening to music.

I got more money than I can spend now.

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

I want to earn my own way, I like having nice things but I've never accepted anything I haven't earned.

I always enjoyed sport. I was a bit of a wild child, to be honest, and just loved running around.

There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.