I see racism as a cancer. It is a cancer growing in us. Unless we stop it, it vegetates and grows bigger which hurts every one of us.

I'm Australian. I'm assimilated. I was born here - how ocker do I have to be?

My family brought me up to be very assimilated and accepting of everyone. But I do get frustrated when I see other Asians who behave in a way that reflects a stereotype.

Sometimes I feel embarrassed because I'll tell the kids if someone is driving really slow or cutting in, I'll say "Bloody Asian drivers." But I feel justified in saying it because I'm Asian.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Falling in love slowly is like awakening one morning to find that the sun has risen in the west.

The "silly" question is the first intimation of some totally new development

I love this country for several reasons, not the least of which is that I know I'm allowed to hate it if I want to.

The strong do not hesitate. They settle down, they sweat, they go on to the end. They exhaust the ink, they use up the paper.

I'm used to doing a lot of dolly tracks.

One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it-- it was the black kitten's fault entirely.

The creative core of New York has never been native New Yorkers; it's people from all over the world.

Excuses are like rear ends. Everybody has one and they stink.

Why did the Soviet Union disintegrate? Why did the Soviet Communist Party collapse? An important reason was that their ideals and beliefs had been shaken.