I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for paradoxes. (p29) - Maxine Hong Kingston

The lights of the city on hills make a vertical shimmer from sky straight into the water, like a backdrop, like a dream. (p37)

Leaning with his back against the door, he could hear this voice, then that one. All was silent but for one voice at a time telling a life. (p214)

I feel that it's part of my work as an artist, a creator, a human being, is to integrate and to be more inclusive and to define American as large and not as exclusive. (2007)