A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

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.

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.

When somebody asks about the greatest players in history, I start with Bill Russell. More than the best player is the MVP, and the MVP in the history of team sports is Bill Russell.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

When good news about the market hits the front page of the New York Times, sell.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.

The wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

To be honest dinner conversations was the worst bit about being a child and listening to the boring people around me.

I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.

Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories.

We must not let ourselves get driven off course, no matter what happens we must stick to our natural game.