People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

You have to be your own person. You can't let people's opinions determine how you think about yourself. There's a difference between identity and self-identity.

My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the world of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.

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

I think we often write because we feel a loneliness, and people read for the same reason, and then they come away feeling a little less lonely.

I don't steer clear of genres. I simply haven't steered myself toward some of them.

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the sou. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true....If people we love die, then they are lost only to our ordinary senses. If we remember, we can find them anytime with our hundred secret senses.