The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight / Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight.

When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations

One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.

Sometimes the best map will not guide you, you can't see what's round the bend. Sometimes the road leads through dark places, sometimes the darkness is your friend

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Little round planet in a big universe, sometimes it looks blessed, sometimes it looks cursed. Depends what you look at obviously, but even more it depends on the way that you see.

And I'm wondering where the lions are.

The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.

Beautiful rocks - beautiful grass Beautiful soil where they both combine Beautiful river - covering sky Never thought of possession, but all this was mine.

Gotta kick at the darkness til it bleeds daylight.

Dreaming is the day job of novelists, but sharing our dreams is a still more important task for us. We cannot be novelists without this sense of sharing something.

I work for the suffering of the common man, something I am very proud of and will continue to do.

The lack of faith is not doubt. It is certainty.

It's dangerous to have feelings when you don't have any money.

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods.

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius.

I was against felonies when a misdemeanor would do.

If man has not found ways to deal with environmental problems such as water and air pollution by 1998, it will be too late. The future is not determined and it lies in our own hands.

In theatre, you've got to make the connect with your audience in the first three minutes. If you haven't, you know you've almost lost them.

My books usually end where they began. I try to bring characters back to a point that is familiar but different because of the growth that they have gone through.