Some may want to shout on the street, but we should tolerate those who hide in their rooms and use literature to voice their opinions.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.

There are times when one shall forgive oneself. Therein lies the best possibilities of learning & improving.

Everyone complains of his memory, and no one complains of his judgment.

An optimist is a fellow who believes what's going to be will be postponed.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

For the sake of sanity, the brain and the eyes keep things simple. But take away the sense of sight and suddenly things are not so simple.

Excel spreadsheets might as well be one of the most dangerous recent inventions.

I don't even know half the time what I'm nominated for.

So I suppose poetry, language, the shaping of it, was and remains for me an effort to make sense out of essentially senseless situations.