Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

For students who are in the most creative group in America to somehow be presumed to be narrow is just completely meshugga.

That there should be a purpose to suffering, that a person should be chosen for it, special - these are houses of the mind, in which whole peoples have found shelter.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.