Quotes from Gene Luen Yang

What is China but a people and their stories?

S]ometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.

Appa has feelings, too!

I do not make mistakes, little monkey. A monkey I intended you to be. A monkey you are.

Family is in essence a small nation, and the nation a large family. In treating his own family with dignity, a ruler learns to govern his nation with dignity

Oh, cruel abandonment! My bones turn to dust beneath the gaze of your ever-mocking smile!

There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide. Who you chose to defend deserves to be defended simply because you chose them. You are the Fire Lord. What you chose, by definition, is right.

Though cast away am I from the heart of my city, black tears dribble from mine eyes at the sight of the fearful trail blazing towards her gates!

It is not human nature to dominate, but to create. Yes, humankind falters every now and then, but you know how to learn from your past mistakes. You've done it before, and you can do it again. I believe that ultimately, you will create a civilization that preserves and protects even as it grows. Do you understand? The spirits will always have a place in this world, as long as you -- and humans like you -- create a place for us. - Lady Tienhai, Guardian Spirit/Queen

So basically, you get to play Super Mario all you want, any time you want, for FREE ! That is the single most amazing thing I've ever heard.

Tell me, Little Bao, have you ever gotten close to woman?' 'Well. . . ' 'Close enough to smell her?' 'No.' 'Ah! Even when they stink they smell like heaven! Women are something else? They're. . . they're magic!

Don't you think you're trying a little too hard to hold on to the past? Maybe, but don't you think you're trying a little too hard to run away from it? Not everybody's past is like yours, Aang. Some of us have to run away just to... just to live.

I am the Mother of Faces. Through me, separateness came into the world. Through me, cam identity. The one became the many.

After all, though our yesterdays may be different, we all share the same tomorrow.

You have to know your past if you want to create a future.

So you only want to go all in if you're guaranteed a win ? Well . . . yeah. Is that wrong? It's not wrong, honey. It's just stupid.

So you know that the RIGHT kind of love ... the kind that's REAL, that SACRIFICES ... that kind of love doesn't BLIND you. It actually helps you SEE.

Ozai: What I'm saying is this -- There is no right or wrong apart from what you decide, who you choose to defend deserves to be defended simply because

'Shadow Hero' was a dream to work on.

Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. They blend time and space. Many feature characters with dual identities like Bruce Wayne/Batman. Cartoonists also tend to live dichotomous lives because many of us have day jobs.

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

I never worked a job that required research. I'm not really good at it, to be honest.

At the very core of what a comic is, time and space are kind of the same thing. When your reader moves her eyes across the page, she should be moving through time in your story.

When I was growing up, I did go to the arcade. We had a neighborhood arcade, and my friends and I would go fairly regularly.