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.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.

We were unusually brought up; there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

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.

I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up.