We got kind of into a rhythm at 'Parks' because there were so many characters that we had an A story, a B story, and a C story just about every episode. So by the middle of that show's run, we always had three stories, and it worked really well.


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I have a fairly limited drawing style. I'm not like my friend Derek Kirk Kim, who can pretty muc...
GENE LUEN YANG
Writing, for me, is very inspiration-dependent. And inspiration can be a jerk.
GENE LUEN YANG
You want to ask people to snoop around? What kind of culture (is this)? In the year 2006 in Malaysia...
YEO YANG POH
They can be informative or even sound positive, but not overly laudatory.
YEO YANG POH
I was a huge fan of the Bruce Timm animated series and, of course, the live action 'Lois & C...
GENE LUEN YANG
I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to mod...
CHEN-NING YANG
It's just nerve-wracking in general to write 'Superman,' right? I'm a life-long supe...
GENE LUEN YANG
Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united seven separate kingdoms into a single ...
GENE LUEN YANG
The great virtue of man lies in his ability to correct his mistakes and to continually make a new ma...
WANG YANG-MING
As long as there are unjust laws, especially criminal laws, it would be doubly unjust if the defenda...
YEO YANG POH
Qinghua was first established as a preparatory school in 1911. In 1928, it became a university. In 1...
CHEN-NING YANG
My first job was as a programmer. So I feel like I'm familiar with the information technology se...
GENE LUEN YANG
The premise of 'Secret Coders' is reminiscent of 'Harry Potter.' An intrepid band of...
GENE LUEN YANG
In 2000, Pope John Paul II canonized 120 saints of China, 87 of whom were ethnically Chinese. My hom...
GENE LUEN YANG
The rumor is Chu Hing really wanted the 'Green Turtle' to be Chinese American, but the publi...
GENE LUEN YANG
In the latter half of the last century the impact of the expanding influence of Western culture and ...
CHEN-NING YANG
Nobody really knows for sure how the Boxer Rebellion started. It began among the poor, and the histo...
GENE LUEN YANG
[S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.
GENE LUEN YANG
There's a real difference of what one believed was one's chief responsibility between Americ...
CHEN-NING YANG
Many Japanese families moved to Taiwan during the occupation. Then, when the war ended, they were fo...
GENE LUEN YANG
The project that I did between 'Boxer & Saints' was 'The Shadow Hero,' which is ...
GENE LUEN YANG
I've tried to write from my own understanding of identity in all my comics, whether it's abo...
GENE LUEN YANG
'Boxers' was more time consuming simply because it was longer, but 'Saints' was defi...
GENE LUEN YANG
Love is the reason why my mother and father stick together in a hard life when they might each have ...
KAO KALIA YANG
I think America is a new country. It is a young culture. The spirit of the opening of the West is st...
CHEN-NING YANG
The application of group theory to physics became one of the main branches of physics that I special...
CHEN-NING YANG
The question was heatedly debated of how much Western culture should be brought into China.
CHEN-NING YANG
As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am i...
CHEN-NING YANG
Science has become something that everybody knows he has to pay attention to, but not everybody is a...
CHEN-NING YANG
The strongest interactions are the nuclear interactions, which include the forces that bind nuclei t...
CHEN-NING YANG
I think in the sciences there is still the general belief that America is still tops. For America to...
CHEN-NING YANG
I was later to receive an excellent first two years' graduate education in the same University a...
CHEN-NING YANG
Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm.
ALAN
The most satisfying win over your enemies is to win them in life.
JOHN YANG AKA PRIVATE83
No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
ALAN WATTS
I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre...
ALAN COLMES
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLIS
Even in our deep ocean, there are ecosystems at work with no light whatsoever down in the deepest po...
ALAN STERN
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
ALAN BENNETT