There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories….

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill..

I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes..

When I am composing, I try to clear my mind of having to publish, or having to sell a book or find readers. That kind of thinking gets in the way..

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insaniti….

To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world--that I am able to change it in positive w….

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people..

Joy and life exist nowhere but the present..

The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one's guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blosso….

Hunger also changes the world - when eating can't be a habit, then neither can seeing..

A story can take you through a whole process of searching, seeking, confronting, through conflicts, and then to a resolution. As the storyteller and ….

In a time of destruction, create something..

When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk-story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. We could be heroines, swo….

We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment..

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it..

Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the kn….

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are t….

Perhaps women were once so dangerous that they had to have their feet bound.

In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment..

The difference between mad people and sane people... is that sane people have variety when they talk-story. Mad people have only one story that they ….

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition..