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“I think my mom is manic, but Chinese people don't believe in psychologists. We just drink more tea when things go bad.”

— Eddie Huang

“<...> when a Chinese wished you ill, he would tell you, “May you live in interesting times.”

— Jennifer Donnelly

“It’s my fault she is this way. I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. How could I…

— Amy Tan

“Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder.”

— Murong Xuecun

“Sir, you are both ungallant and deficient! How am I deficient? You're just a boy.”

— J.M. Barrie

“You can't say this, you can't say that, how am I supposed to interact in China?”

— BBC World News journalist

“And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.”

— Sara Baume

“I'd fake the part for a second to infiltrate, gather intelligence, and then ditch it, laughing on my way back to the outside. That's…

— Eddie Huang

“I usually dumb down around the intellectually deficient so I don’t come off like a complete prick.”

— Krista Ritchie

“If we hear a Chinese we tend to take his speech for inarticulate gurgling. Someone who understands Chinese will recognize language in what he…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“What Chinese parents understand is that nothing is fun until you're good at it.”

— Amy Chua

“Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.”

— Amy Tan