"It is our peculiar punishment that we know things change and we want this to be otherwise."

“People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving.”

“There were seventy-five people in the lobby and only a seven-year-old girl was finding out what it felt like to sit on the Marble Floor”

“If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.”

“Truth is more than a mental exercise.”

“It's hard to convince a winner that he's losing.”

“After twenty years and thirty stories, thirteen pieces were finally selected and the collection was born. So far, the blurbs from [authors] Maxine Hong Kingston, Gish Jen, Robert Olen Butler, Oscar Hijuelos and others, have been most encouraging.”

Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

“Of course, it gave the studio an enormous power, because I don't know any other place who had that skill with images to communicate with. And the need of these kinds of images are even greater now than they ever were because we are losing our life symbols.”

“Our minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer.”