I think my parents' lives are worthy of writing about. I don't think my life is particularly worthy of writing about.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

In the United States, the immigrant experience occupies a very central place in American mythology. And sometimes, that place wavers between acceptance and rejection.

Immigrants, as troubling as they are to some people, are an integral part of what the American Dream is supposed to be. They're understandable to a considerable number of Americans.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

Writers from the majority can assume their audiences know what they're talking about - they don't have to explain things, whereas minority writers are expected to.

My identity is deeply intertwined with being a refugee because that's the first experience that I remember.

I never called myself a writer because it seemed so pretentious - a writer was what somebody else called you, a title bestowed.

I've never stopped being a refugee.

Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

With faces entirely invisible through suits, it was hard to be sure, but my impression was that he was watching me and copying my every move. I felt this proved he was intelligent.

Why choose to live a meaningless life of excuses and complains, when you already have what it takes to make some adjustments and press forward with courage and faith?

I want to be the most unsold, and the most unsought-after author, after I stop selling my fake name anagrams on the internet.

Every person is defined by the communities she belongs to.

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

In order to see the world clearly, you must clean the windows of perception. The only problem is, our society doesn't do windows.

Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards.

Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

I had been on the junior Olympic team in high school for trampoline; I could do twenty-six back flips in a row.