Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi bu-cho, cho pi bu-fang. Basically that translates to: "Loud farts don’t stink, and the really smelly ones don’t make a sound." In other words: When you’re full of beans, you just blow a lot of hot air. If you want to have a real impact, be deadly but silent. Oh, also recognize the difference between a bad cliché and a good quotation. My mother’s saying is a good quotation. You should use it often.

Why do you have to use me to show off? If you want to show off, then why don't you learn to play chess." - Ch. 5

Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.

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.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression.