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.

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

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

Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

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

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.

Time flies when you’re being stupid.

A man with no imagination can never inspire others.

If I have only one coin left in the world, I will buy a rose to propose to you.

Chemicals are available for all classes, poor, average and rich, so far I'm average class and I have the chance and the guds to drink chemical for 1.89$.

No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been.

And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art. . .

If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

Because of the Incarnation, I salute all remaining matter with reverence.

To progress is always to begin again.

Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.