There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system 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.

I want to be the reason you look at your phone when you wake up in the morning and smile

Why is patience so important?""Because it makes us pay attention.

The goal isn't how much money you make, but how much you help people.

Number one way life would be different if dogs ran the world: All motorists must drive with head out window.

Where the most beautiful wild flowers grow, there mans spirit is fed and poets grow.

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

I have a strange combination of fearlessness and massive insecurity.

Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you're grateful for.

We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.