When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
“I've inherited a sense of that loss from my parents because it was so palpable all the time while I was growing up, the sense of what my parents had sacrificed in moving to the United States, and yet at the same time, building a life here and all that that entailed.”
“I mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, I'd get my baby book and hand it out and say 'Here it is.'”