I think Ive always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success. – Amy Tan
Its both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success. – Amy Tan
I was intelligent enough to make up my own mind. I not only had freedom of choice, I had freedom of expression. – Amy Tan
California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life… its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. – J.B. Priestley