I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.

The forbidden things were a great influence on my life. I was forbidden from reading A Catcher in the Rye.

You must think for yourself, what you must do. If someone tells you, then you are not trying. -An-mei

I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child.

I began to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.