I write about my region, the countryside in which I grew up.

In general I love to eat anything. I enjoy anything that is well prepared, a good spaghetti, lasagna, taco, steak, sushi, refried beans.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

People who don't travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what's in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.

Why is America such a great country. It is because we stand united.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

So when I do Chinese cooking, I mix everything together, then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.

I am also well aware that literature only has a minimal influence on political disputes or economic crises in the world, but its significance to human beings is ancient.

You can do almost anything with soup stock, it's like a strong foundation. When you have the right foundation, everything tastes good.

For a country boy, poor as I was, whose constant worry was to be able to have enough to eat, the Army guaranteed one's survival.

It is customary these days to ignore what should be done in favour of what pleases us.

Character is the real foundation of all worthwhile success.

I have to admit that I had a lot of problems with poetry.

No Roman ever died in contemplation over a geometrical diagram.

If none of us ever read a book that was "dangerous," had a friend who was "different," or joined an organization that advocated "change," we would all be the kind of people Joe McCarthy wants.

The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.

I don't have time. Come back after the election.

Top of my wish list is to play for a club that wants me to be their goalkeeper.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.