In a time of destruction, create something.

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.

And I had to get out of hating range.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies?

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'