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

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 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.

When you want to encourage a greater sense of responsibility in others (and yourself), emphasize the anticipation of accomplishment, not the penalties for failure.

I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie.

Gratitude creates the most wonderful feeling. It can resolve disputes. It can strengthen friendships. And it makes us better men and women.

I think, with the administration they do Constitutionally-mandated things most of the time, but they don't - they fulfill the letter of their obligation to checks and balances, but not the intent.

Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

Only let's cut out the transcendental twaddle when the whole thing is as plain as a sock on the jaw.

Grammar, which knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hands makes them obey its laws.

Every two or three years, I knock off for a while. That way I'm always the new girl in the whorehouse.

Bullying exists because of a lack adult intervention.

If the stock goes down we want to buy more.