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

- Gene Luen Yang

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 …

- Gene Luen Yang

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 th…

- Gene Luen Yang

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

- Gene Luen Yang

Zombies aren't about zombies. It's not about the dead bodies. I think it's a very hopeful subgenre. It says that regardless of what happens, humanity…

- Gene Luen Yang

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

- Gene Luen Yang

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

- Gene Luen Yang

Superheroes are also about immigrants. Superman, the prototype of all superheroes, is a prototypical immigrant. His homeland was in crisis, so his pa…

- Gene Luen Yang

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

- Gene Luen Yang