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

You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.

Then she told me why a tiger is gold and black. It has two ways. The gold side leaps with its fierce heart. The black side stands still with cunning, hiding its gold between the trees, seeing and not being seen, waiting patiently for things to come. I did not learn to use my black side until after the bad man left me.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

Her education only made her unhappy thinking about it - that no matter how much she changed her life, she could not change the world that surrounded her.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.