Long time I been on my own, but now really I'm alone. I survive the killing, the starving, all the hate of the Khmer Rouge, but I think maybe now I will die of this, of broken heart.

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

Simply to endure is to triumph.

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

A man who doles out sweets, and slaps, with the same hand.

Sometimes when we’re in situations where we feel we’re not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

This affliction--hope--is so cruel and stubborn, I believe it will kill me

Inside my head I carry: my baby goat, my baby brother, my ama's face, our family's future. My bundle is light. My burden is heavy.

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

What gets me about the United States is that it pretends to be honest and therefore has so little room to move toward hope.

Unfinishedness avoids the stupidity of conclusions

life is unfair, if you are weak, your out

I don't deal at all well with the relative amount of stuff I have to face already.

Life question reflects nation's nature & equality of humans.

Babies laughing is like opium.

Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

I didn't grow up thinking of movies as film, or art, but as movies, something to do on a Saturday afternoon.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.