What is a secret wish?" "It is what you want but cannot ask.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I have a writer's memory, which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

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.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

I think books were my salvation, they saved me from being miserable.