Whatever there is when there isn't war has to be invented. What do people do in peace? Peace has barely been thought. (p306) - Maxine Hong Kingston

I travel a lot, and I know that I communicate very well in person, on one to one, but the books say things in a better way than I can get verbally, and also it works so efficiently, with those books getting out all over the world. (1990)

He sings melodies that wind like ribbons into the vistas. (p75)

Of course, I'm an ethnic writer, and only benighted people see ethnics as not partaking of the macrocosmic. And only Chinese Americans who are very mad would kick an admirer of Henry James and William Carlos Williams out of our family