For a while I felt very alone sort of out there in the world of comics especially here in the States.

Today osteoporosis affects more than 75 million people in the United States Europe and Japan and causes more than 2.3 million fractures in the USA and Europe alone.

You know golf is very lonely. When I'm in the States I feel like if I just think about Taiwan my friends my fans I won't feel like I'm alone.

I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that as a novelist you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

As strong as the United States is we can't deal with terrorism alone.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it let alone in the United States of America.