If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.

I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

Now I was a tiger that neither pounced nor lay waiting between the trees. I became an unseen spirit.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.