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Perfection comes at a sacrifice,

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

If you're the water boiler king of China, you're selling a billion water boilers.

Remember, every treasure comes with a price.

Especially in the West, people want to understand Asia on a deeper level because it's become the engine of the world economy, like it or not.

I live in New York, but I still get the village gossip. My apartment is a crash pad for so many Singaporean cousins and friends.

we were buying things we actually loved, not things to show off,

It's human nature when you first make your big fortune to want to show off a bit. I don't begrudge that whatsoever.

Doing nothing can sometimes be the most effective form of action.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

There's something really cathartic about that, about owning up to your truth.

I don't understand. How can a credit card ever be rejected? It's not like it's a kidney!" Colette laughed.

There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

I was born in Singapore, and I lived there until I was 12. I had a very fortunate upbringing.

Just because some people actually work for their money doesn't mean they are beneath you.

I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.

In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

Writers often say that characters begin to write themselves, and I never used to believe that. I always thought that was complete hogwash.

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

You love your children so much, you do everything to try to protect them, and they don't even appreciate it.

My father went to boarding school in Sydney when he was 14.

My grandmother used to get her shoes made in Paris in the '30s, and they would be shipped to her in Singapore.

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture.

Even if they're not Asian or super rich ... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.

People have always been fascinated by the foibles of the wealthy and privileged.

At least when it comes to food, there's no snobbery in Singapore.

My father grew up in a life of extreme privilege.

about a man whose greatness had nothing to do with wealth or power.

There are old-money Asians that would never be caught dead with a Chanel handbag or sporting anything that has a label it.

Behind every fortune lies a great crime.

Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.

One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.

No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

Asian literature is evolving with the people. It's always a reflection on what's happening to the culture at large.

I'm not revealing any deep, hidden secret that there are wealthy people in Asia.

In Singapore, there may be 50 old-money families, but you wouldn't know them to look at them.