Mu Xin Quotes

Impressions are like pearls; ideas are like the string that turns the pearls into a necklace. The string is invisible, but it is not dispensable and cannot be broken.

Growth will be slower, no one denies that. But the question is: Where are the chances and opportunities now? I see some positive and some negative trends.

The first principle of modern cultures may be their connectedness. Culture is like wind and wind knows no boundary or center. Once there is a center, wind becomes a whirlwind.

Many Chinese entrepreneurs are now donating for education; others support foundations in health care and research. None of us wants to be the richest guy in the cemetery.

Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era is over.

Chinese no longer crave so much for food and accommodation, but they do crave democracy. I stand by that. I don't know which model China will follow.

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I play and write.

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shouldn't be any 'ideas' visible.

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

I watched something vanish, as if I was in a dream from which I couldn't wake.