My parents told me I would become a doctor and then in my spare time I would become a concert pianist. So, both my day job and my spare time were sort of taken care of.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

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.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

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

I felt stuck in the bottom of a wishing well. I was desperate to shout what I wanted, but I didn’t know what that was. I knew only what it wasn’t. The Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan

To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself.