Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.

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.

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.

I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.

Some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. Others become eating disorders.

A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

The drive toward knowledge has a moral origin.

One of the real problems of society is that its far too atomized, what sociologists call secondary associations.

That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

Many of the most difficult questions concerning the role of ethnic minorities centers on language.

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

I suppose, yes, I've been guilty of provocation but it's also just common sense marketing - put a bottle of scent in a woman's cleavage, or between her thighs - and men will notice.