I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

You can have pride in what you do each day, but not arrogance in what you were born with.

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.

Language is the tool of my trade -and I use them all - all the Englishes I grew up with

After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?