I tend to always carry a camera with me. I live next to a fire station, and I've got lots of photos of the hook and ladder coming out of the house. And I like food, so I tend to photograph wonderfully presented food all the time. To me those are very pleasant memories.

I started working occasionally for my father when I was around six. The first skill I learned was how to join a plug to a wire.

Well, I got to have a project. I'm not a blue-sky guy at all. I'd never let anybody like me loose in a company.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

We've got the right to vote, but what does it mean? People now want to have the right to a job, the right to education, the right to medical services.

I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think would suck a lot of life out of my family without giving very much to me.

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.

To be honest, I know that a lot of Asian parents are secretly shocked and horrified by many aspects of Western parenting.