Before my eyes are many miserable scenes, the suffering of others and myself forces my hands to move. I become a machine for writing.

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 tell young people: Do not think of yourself, think of others. Think of the future that awaits you, think about what you can do and do not fear anything.

I want to show my sins withinTo help make me sinless, once again"What I Want

Hope is the belief more or less strong that joy will come desire is the wish it may come.

How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?

Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit.

It's hard to stay positive when there's a lot of evil in the world.

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

Free from attachments to the past and worries about the future, a child expresses him/herself fully.