Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

He: "Whale you be my valentine?" She: "Dolphinitely.

Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will.

When you're working, you have so many people working around you and being involved. It can get a bit overwhelming. I've just gotten used to it.

As with marathon runs and lengths of toilet paper, there had to be standards to measure up to.

A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.

The only difference between a winner and a loser is character.

Hey, guys!" Grover yelled somewhere above us. "I think she's unconscious!" "Roooaaarrr!" "Maybe not," Grover corrected.

I love the art of acting, so I don't care if I'm in a movie with 10 people, two people, or by myself. I just really enjoy it.