Adaptability Is The Simple Secret Of Survival.

Hybridity Keeps Me From Being Rigid About Most Things. It Has Taught Me To Appreciate The Contradictions In The World And In My Life. I Scavenge From The Best.

It's Not Just Nyu. There Are Days When I Feel Like I'm Stranded In Some Upscale Mall In Pasadena. Don't Even Get Me Started On The Insidious Transformation Of Bleecker Street!

[on The Philippines:] ... Eighty Dialects And Languages Are Spoken; We Are A Fragmented Nation Of Loyal Believers, Divided By Blood Feuds And Controlled By The Church.

But I Think There's A Genuine Joy, Too, A Sense That No Matter What, Even If My Stomach's Growling, I'm Going To Dance. That's What I Want To Leave People With At The End Of The Play. After All This, People Still Know How To Live.

I Don't Know What Issues Concerning Identity Have Helped Contemporary Fiction Evolve To What It Is Now. All I Know Is That The Range Of Voices That Are Being Heard And Published Is A Lot More Diverse Than When I Was Coming Up.