It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

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.

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.

Eventually you are answerable to yourself for your deeds. Be good and do good!

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind.

The darkest minds never fade in the afterlight.

I love to sing. I'm definitely not a very good singer, but when I'm in my shower I get down for sure.

Talking about golf is always boring. Playing golf can be interesting, but not the part where you try to hit the little ball; only the part where you drive the cart.

Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow.

Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.

Analysis paralysis occurs when you overthink and underwork.

A lot of military kids make a lot of moves but I only made the one, so it wasn't really an issue for me.

American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.