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I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

David Henry Hwang

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Tags: life, american dream

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

David Henry Hwang

There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness.

Tags: american, unique

About Author
David Henry Hwang (born August 11, 1957) is an American playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and theater professor at Columbia University in New York City. He has won three Obie Awards for his plays FOB, Golden Child, and Yellow Face. Three of his works (M. Butterfly, Yellow Face, and Soft Power) have been finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama.

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard an...

David Henry Hwang

My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop before my senior year with people like Sam Shepard an...

Tags: culture, me, people

As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eye...

David Henry Hwang

As soon as a Western man comes into contact with the East -- he's already confused. The West has sort of an international rape mentality towards the East. ...Basically, 'Her mouth says no, but her eye...

Tags: political philosophy

But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine?

David Henry Hwang

But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine?

For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women—these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the re...

David Henry Hwang

For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women—these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the re...

Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it.

David Henry Hwang

Happiness is so rare that our mind can turn somersaults to protect it.

Tags: happiness, protection, rare