I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

But there are certain books I would never put on a Kindle because you want to be able to look at graphs and photos or the footnotes and maps. You can't see that.

Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.

Maybe we're all like that with our mothers. They seem ordinary until one day they're extraordinary.

People say you need to be strong, smart, and lucky to survive hard times, war, a natural disaster, or physical torture. But I say emotional abuse—anxiety, fear, guilt, and degradation—is far worse and much harder to survive.

I am an eighth Chinese, and I come from a large Chinese-American family in Los Angeles.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.