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.

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.

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

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

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.

One passion leads to another. It's passion that makes the wheels of life turn, passion for work, passion for pleasure, passion for passion.

Women in Jesus' day were less than second-class citizens.

Everything has a finsh line. You just have to keep moving forward until you cross it.

Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with.

Everything, virtue, glory, honor, things human and divine, all are slaves to riches.

I grew up watching PBS and wanting to be a part of it, just like HBO.

I do not need to play in the Champions League to be happy

We offer our prayers in weakness but they ascend in power because of the blood of Jesus.

Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.

A human being is a deciding being.