Growing up in the Philippines, I loved all kinds of movies. We had a very healthy film industry there when I was a child.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

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.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Reaganism as a political movement has enormous resources behind it and it seeks - through stagecraft and through a tremendous level of effort toward propaganda - to present an image of Reagan that is so much larger-than-life that it sort of blinds us all, and keeps us all in a warm, happy, nostalgic state, thinking of a man who can do no wrong.

I'd rather somebody expect a lot out of me than nothing at all.

With the first novel, I was concerned I would be pigeon-holed as an Asian-American writer, and the book would be labeled for Asian-Americans only.

By the way he carried himself, you really thought that Bon Scott was immortal.