Success is buying another condo next week. He already has one for himself, and one for his parents, so this new apartment, he says, is for investment purposes. He’s just bought a car to satisfy Progress and Insecurity, his parents, whom he tells me will want to go for another round-the-world vacation very soon.

Alvin Pang, What Gives Us Our Names

This book is… so epic.

Thank you again to the friend who knew that simply telling me to read it would not get me to read it and actually sent me the books. (Plural because there is also a 中文版 which will also! be! read!)