If I didn't self-censor, I would be in jail, and then I wouldn't be effective at all.

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.

Whatsoever you set your hands on doing, do it in such a way that your work will always stand out.

The Spirit is the reason we can build a church and have confidence that we will get it at least a little bit right.

Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance?

Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "Hey, is there room in your head for one more?

I just live life. I grew up in a Christian family, but, you know, the way Mom brought me up is to, you know, do you, to always be yourself.

I grew up in an all-white community.

I bought my wife a little Italian car. A Mafia. It has a hood under the hood.

Corporations are economic entities, to be sure, but they are also social institutions that must justify their existence by their overall contribution to society.

It's not enough for women to speak out on the issue - for the message to be strong and consistent, women's voices must be backed up by men's.

During the writer's strike I was walking a line and ran into Jack Black and he said,'We're doing Airborne 2!', and I asked, 'Are you kidding?', and he said, 'Yeah.' I like 'Airborne,' its very pure.