To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

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.

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.

A woman’s belly is the garden of life. Her mind is the gateway to meaning. Her heart is the source of love. And her eyes are the light by which the whole world sees beauty.

Instead of a national curriculum for education, what is really needed is an individual curriculum for every child.

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you are being watched and recorded.

A felon's cell-- The fittest earthly type of hell!

If heaven is the reason and dieing is the door, than why aren't we all leaving what's the drama for?

The challenge of being a manager is to get the best out of everybody, not just the few who are clones of yourself.

One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

You are a success when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future