Ying-ying, you have tiger eyes. They gather fire in the day. At night they shine golden.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Words are more ardent if a man must struggle to find them.

I love my daughter. She and I have shared my body. There is a part of her mind that is a part of mine. But when she was born, she sprang from me like a slippery fish, and has been swimming away ever since.

We are the kind of people who obsess over one word... but we have only one shot to get it right in concert. It was hard the first time I practiced with them. I was so nervous that my vocal chords were paralyzed for about a half-hour.

But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei