To save myself, I destroyed another, and in doing so, I destroyed myself..

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the ….

Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment..

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see t….

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate..

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure..

Only two kinds of daughters, she shouted in Chinese. Those who are obedient and those who follow their own mind!.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you..

So much of history is mystery. We don't know what is lost forever, what will surface again. All objects exist in a moment of time. And that fragment ….

I have always known a thing before it happens..

I won't be what I'm not. -Jing-mei.

Shanghainese people are good negotiators, they're very persistent, and you grow up in an atmosphere like that - very competitive. That becomes part o….

Isn't that how it is when you must decide with your heart? You are not just choosing one thing over another. You are choosing what you want. And you ….

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know….

I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my….

Chaos is the penance for leisure..

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin..

How do I create something out of nothing? And how do I create my own life? I think it is by questioning, and saying to myself that there are no absol….

What is true about a person? Would I change in the same way the river changes color but still be the same person?... And then I realized it was the f….

Now you see,' said the turtle, drifting back into the pond, 'why it is useless to cry. Your tears do not wash away your sorrows. They feed someone el….

I've always been a magnet for guilt..