When you're reading from a different language that's different from your own, it's not the same as being fluent.

When I was in the sixth grade my friend and I always won writing contests, and we read a lot of books. We were always the ones that read the most books in class. I thought about writing but visual arts weren't part of my vocabulary.

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

This is my first collaboration [with Mary Hamill] so I'm going to learn how it's going to work.

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

I used to despair about the condition of the world, to feel a sense of hopelessness; now I find more and more that I need to focus on what I can do, however little it is, to help others.

I started to paint in the year 2000. I never thought of going to an art school, even though I loved art.