Fate changes when you change your clothes. - Amy Tan

Dementia was like a truth serum.

All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.

This is the kind of China you Americans always see in the movies - the poor countryside, people wearing big hats to protect themselves from the sun. No, I never wore a hat like that! I was from Shanghai. That's like thinking someone from San Francisco wears a cowboy hat and rides a horse. Ridiculous!