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.

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.

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.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

We fail even if we do our best, because our best is someone else’s good.

If God gives you a few more years, remember, it is not yours. Your time must honor God, your home must honor God, your activity must honor God, and everything you do must honor God.

Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

If the mother had not beene in the oven, shee had never sought her daughter there.

I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

A great idea is not enough.

Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.

Marxism requires that we destroy God, because government must become God. And the only way for government to become God is to destroy the concept of God.

The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.