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

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.

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.

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.

I thought this would be the end of your antics. There are three hundred guests sitting in the church and suddenly you believe you can fly?

Man wants to be the king o’ the rabbits, he best wear a pair o’ floppy ears.

To fulfil the insatiable desire of God is to fit in into his need

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

There's nothing about interdependence that would keep somebody from making art.

I was born an American, I live like an American, I will die an American.

I was always opinionated.

When you lose your freedom, you lose, first and foremost, the opportunity to choose the company you keep.

The most dangerous country for the U.S. now is Pakistan. ... We haven't been this vulnerable since the British burned Washington in 1814.

People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.