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?

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

And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. It is so obvious. It is my family. It is in our blood.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

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

My parents had very high expectations. They expected me to get straight A's from the time I was in kindergarten.

Dementia was like a truth serum.