Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture. - Amy Tan

After the gold was removed from my body I felt lighter, more free. They say this is what happens if you lack metal. You begin to think as an independent person.

I think Kwan intended to show me the world is not a place but the vastness of the soul. And the soul is nothing more than love, limitless, endless, all that moves us toward knowing what is true.

how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?