I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

I like to go somewhere where I learn something I didn't know before, like the Dry Tortugas between Florida and Cuba.

That was a wonderful period in my life. I mean, I didn't become an artist, but somebody let me do something I loved. What a luxury, to do something you love to do.

For woman is yin, the darkness within, where untempered passions lie. And man is yang, bright truth lighting our minds.

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

And I remember wondering why it was that eating something good could make me feel so terrible, while vomiting something terrible could make me feel so good.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.