Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

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.

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

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.

War makes rattling good history but Peace is poor reading.

Most of the utopian community ideas actually are religious. They're based more on the idea of the monastery than the commune.

Ready mony is a ready Medicine.

There is no subjection so perfect as that which keeps the appearance of freedom.

God is with you always. Simply turn your face to Him.

Let people return to making knots on ropes, instead of writing.

Land surveying has been a positive influence on my life, and I'd encourage anyone who hasn't considered it to give it a chance!

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

One may not eat what has a face.

Fish deserve to be caught for they are lazy. Two million years of evolution and they still haven't got out of the water.