Don't ever feel that you have to hide who you are. Nothing good ever comes from keeping secrets like that.
My love for him had never gone away but only changed, growing deeper like wine fermenting or pickles curing. It bore into me with the pervasiveness of water working its way to the center of a mountain.
The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.
You make choices that are good and sound, but the gods have other plans for you.
Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.
I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.