Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

I like to listen. I'm much more interested in listening than in speaking, for sure.

When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored.

... there is ... a big aspect of play in writing novels, and making the story more and more elaborate is just more and more fun.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

A man was the sum of his limits; freedom only made him see how much so.

It's human to hear stories and to know how people live and to imagine how that is for them. It's very interdependent!

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.

She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.

Journey with me to a true commitment to our environment. Journey with me to the serenity of leaving to our children a planet in equilibrium.

Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information.

Comedy is the last refuge of the non-comformist mind.

If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

On a mission your worst enemy is idle time.

Enjoyment of football is part of the social context, and I have lost my faith in this social context.

My mother was the worst cook ever. In school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.

It is we that are blind, not fortune; because our eye is too dim to discern the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint her blind, and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.