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

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.

You're too young to decide to live forever.

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

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

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