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 Hope
There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. -David Henry Hwang Happiness
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 and Maria Irene Fornes who encouraged me to write from my subconscious, and suddenly all this material about culture clash came out. -David Henry Hwang Teacher
