Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

Good music was meant to be loud!

Stories have a job to do. They can't just lie around like lazybone dogs. They have to teach you something.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

What a quality of innocence people have when they don't expect to be harmed.

There are alternate explanations for everything.

Marx profoundly affected those who did not accept his system. His influence extended to those who least supposed they were subject to it.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want

The man who says what he thinks is finished, and the man who thinks what he says is an idiot.

Jesus went before us on the narrow path along which He beckons us to follow Him.