I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

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.

She chose the attractive room, not noticing the cloven hoof exposed beneath the ornate curtains. That decision has surely haunted her every day since, finally catching up to her.

What does it matter what people do? At the end of the day we're all dead.

Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.

The menu of my mother consisted of only two choices: Leave it or take it

Sitting around miserable all day won't make you any happier.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

The arrow of Marxist-Leninism must be used to hit the target of the Chinese Revolution.

a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses.

The secret in riding is to do few things right. The more one does, the less one succeeds. The less one does, the more one succeeds.