When you lose your face..., it is like dropping your necklace down a well. The only way you can get it back is to fall in after it.

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

You can't have intentions without consequences. The question is, who pays for the consequences? Saving fish from drowning. Same thing. Who’s saved? Who’s not?

Dementia was like a truth serum.

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.

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

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