I think there is always romantic tension between Lois Lane and Clark Kent.

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.

When humor goes, there goes civilization.

Travel, for me, is a breathtaking experience. A humbling for the soul and the realization that we are all in this together.

Sometimes my ethnicity is relevant, other times not. I definitely get the best of both worlds.

There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG.

Golfers should not fail to realize that it is a game of great traditions, of high ideals of sportsmanship, one in which a strict adherence to the rules is essential.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

Remember that what you have is unique because it's your own special way of looking at the world.

Why do I get the feeling that if you give me a hard time, I'll tell all of our year-mates your family nickname is Meathead?