You couldn't put me in a social group setting. I'm probably a terrible anarchist deep down.

Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.