To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

What is China but a people and their stories?

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

My best teachers, the teachers who had the deepest effect on my reading, combined the two. They would mix required reading with reading where you had some choice, you had some autonomy. There's a place for both. A good teacher will know how to find that balance.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.