David Henry Hwang Quotes

I'm happy. Which often looks like crazy.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

Sometimes I hate you, sometimes I hate myself, but always I miss you

It's the stories that make my heart beat faster ...those are the ones to write about

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

Tonight, I've finally learned to tell fantasy from reality. And, knowing the difference, I choose fantasy.

There's a reason why the form was originally silent

Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.

We are all prisoners of our time and place.

This is the ultimate cruelty, isn't it? That I can talk and talk and to anyone listening, it's only air--too rich a diet to be swallowed by a mundane world.

Ive studied Chinese in college, but basically, Im not bilingual.

Well, there's no guarantee of failure in life like happiness in high school.

Death with honor is better than life... life with dishonor.

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.