I do not believe in old age. I do not believe in getting tired.

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes.

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and the listener, we go through a story together.

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swordswomen. Even if she had to rage across all China, a swordswoman got even with anybody who hurt her family. Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they talk over and over.

I learned to shoot more accurately because my teachers held the targets.

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound