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 a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

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

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

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

I find that nowadays it's just gotten harder for me to read for fun. It feels like all of my reading is research-based.