"You have to wear a different face when you're interacting with the larger culture. And you can be more of yourself at home or in the local market or in the local church speaking your own language. That was my sense growing up as a Vietnamese refugee in San Jose."

“Few would dispute with the rose her claim to be the queen of flowers, for where is her equal to be found? Is she not God’s masterpiece?”

Source : Patience Strong (1951). “The Glory of the Garden”

“Saying that all documentaries are the same is like saying all foreign films are the same.”

Source : "INTERVIEW:Comic Book Confidential; Zwigoff Returns with Clowe’s 'Ghost World'". Interview with Daniel Steinhart, www.indiewire.com. July 20, 2001.

“Socialism's failure in the former Soviet Union and in the other socialist countries stands as a clean and unquestionable warning as to which path any rational and sane people should never follow again. Government planning brought poverty and ruin...Unfortunately, America is not absorbing the lessons that should be learned from the socialist experience and, instead, is following the same path of destruction.”

“I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.”

“True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.”

“As a chef, if I can taste something, I can basically figure out whats in it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”

“No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar..”