My life contains so many other things; I have my children, my grandchildren, my two dogs and a big place in the country. I have my own life.
The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.
You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.
No, It's hard to uproot yourself and really become yourself in another soil, but it's also an opportunity, another kind of growth.
Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.
And I really haven't done a damn thing.
Before there was the Soviet Union that could inflame matters. Now you have states not as powerful as the Soviet Union, but states like Iraq, like Iran, and to some extent Syria, having made it possible for some of these groups to operate. So it is a very difficult situation.
Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government.
Jack Layton taught us to believe in a new approach to leadership.