Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Only the smaller fish pay for the goverment's face-lift. The big ones - they just become bigger and fatter.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

No matter the feelings. You can transform the energy of your emotions into your power.

Faith is a state of openness or trust.

Women observe subconsciously a thousand little details, without knowing they are doing so. Their subconscious mind adds these little things together - and they call the result intuition.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.

Sen. Obama is a decent person and a person you don't have to be scared of as president of the United States.

I don't wear makeup. I don't wash my hair every day. It's not something that I associate with myself.

I grew up in a household that revered building businesses. It wasn't thinking about leadership; it was more about building something. To build something, you ultimately have to lead.

It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.

I think we should have understanding and love and peace. I mean, peace and love has been my situation. You hear that in the song. I'm trying to promote that now: peace and love and understanding.