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

It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success.

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.

I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water.

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

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

They know where happiness lies, not in a cave or a country, but in love and the freedom to give and take what has been there all along.