Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

You strive to have a good heart. But what is a heart? Just a chunk of flesh that a dog can eat.

The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for women.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon.

With all my heart I beseech and beg my two hundred million female compatriots to assume their responsibility as citizens. Arise! Arise! Chinese women, arise!

Life is a journey, and you can't carry everything with you. Only the usable baggage.

The more you move, the stronger you'll grow, not like a tree that can be killed if you uproot it.

Autumn rain, autumn wind, they make one die of sorrow.

Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.

My pen is alight and my body aflame. Until both burn down to ash, my love and my hate will remain here in the world.

I still love the sound of breaking, the tearing of the page

ZERO and Infinity both are very difficult to understand and explain but at the same time both are key assumption of Mathematics...

Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.

Whenever anyone pulls out of the race, you know, unless they've just been trounced in the days before, there's also - always a lot of questions about why that happened.

There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

When two drivers curse each other on the road, and one of them happens to be a Jew, you can't define that as anti-Semitism.

When we protect ourselves so we won't feel pain, that protection becomes like armor, like armor that imprisons the softness of of the heart.

Because every day of your life was written on God's calendar before you were born, everything that happens to you has spiritual significance.

If a single writer in a country is in chains, then there are some links of that chain that binds us all.