So, I think China desperately needs to legitimize some form of opposition.

There is no question that Taiwan is a state in any political science definition of a state.

Another goal is to look to the resources we have and to see how we could do better to plan, in a sense, for the faculty and infrastructure that we will need to study Asia well into the 21st century.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I don't believe that economic and cultural interaction automatically brings greater peace and understanding, although it may help in that regard.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.

Taiwan is a major economy.

3 P’s are my soulmates: Pain, Prose and Poetry.

I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Perhaps it's because it's incredible to meet someone and say: with this person, I'm happy.

There are few things in this world more satisfying than having your son teach you how to play tennis, unless it is having a semi-truck run over your foot.

Yet the past has a will of its own, and you must learn to entertain it, because it will visit, invited or not.

Let's face it, we were all once three-year-olds who stood in the middle of the living room and everybody thought we were so adorable. Only some of us grow up and get paid for it.

There are a lot of parts of who I am that no one in the public has ever known, but the older I've gotten, the more I've appreciated my own strange little self and come to terms with that.

When people, women included, hear that you are writing, they assume that it is simply a hobby to fill in the time between doing the washing-up and the ironing. It couldn't possibly be a profession.

I was struggling man. I had a stomach ache. I was throwing up, I was just feeling bad. I couldn't sleep.