I think every person has a unique story to tell and we each have the different life events that happen to us and sometimes we may feel sympathetic toward a certain aspect of that life event.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

I think that through the narratives of other people you get closer to your own.

In This Body Mystery, even though it was written in the voice of people with HIV/AIDS, it's about how people come to accept their fate and their sickness. It's about accepting the way your life is.

It's hard to choose the right word, the right line. This Body Mystery is a small book, but it took me over ten years.

When I hear Khmer poets, when they recite their poems, I know what they're talking about, I get it right away.

In Cambodian culture the male figure in the family is important; when you lose your husband you lose your economic ability to survive.