But the thing is, a wife is a wife and you can't ditch her like a worn shirt after a life.

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.

If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.

We make love with soul, not body

Well, darkness with humor... I'm not an extremely suicidal or sad person.

For a long time, weve worked on detecting planets with whatever was at hand, making use of existing small telescopes or even amateur telescopes. Its time to move on to the next stage.

Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

A blessed and indestructible being has no trouble himself and brings no trouble upon any other being; so he is free from anger and partiality, for all such things imply weakness.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

Making films is much more difficult than people imagine, and so the experience of actually directing them is not one I've ever relished.

The first great work (a task performed by few) Is that yourself may to yourself be true.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.