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

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

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.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

No husband of mine will say, "I could have been a drummer, but I had to think about the wife and kids. You know how it is." Nobody supports me at the expense of his own adventure.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.