If you look at our world, we're becoming so much more diverse in every sense of the word. It's not just about culture or identity. It's also about the different ways we communicate.

To find your true identity within the will of Tze Yo Tzuh...that is the highest of all freedoms.

It's easy to become anything you wish . . . so long as you're willing to forfeit your soul.

Building a habit of reading leads to all sorts of reading.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

What is China but a people and their stories?

I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side.

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders. So that was the emotional core of American Born Chinese.

Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

I think a lot of us who are in books now were nervous children.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

Faith does not grow in a house of certainty.

If you don’t see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner.

I think that is the very definition of a family: a group of individuals, bound by the essence of love, who share a life together and yet maintain their unique individuality.

Good content isn’t about good storytelling. It’s about telling a true story well.

My greatest life lesson has been to not wait for the opportunities to come to me. I realize how important it is to be proactive and to create the opportunities myself.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

In the ladies' room, Alice studied her image in the mirror. The reflected older woman's face didn't quite match the picture that she had of herself in her mind's eye." p 35

I think everything in life is an evolution, isn't it?

Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

When I did Casual, I just let myself put on weight because he's a schoolteacher. He's not meant to be muscle-y.