Praise be to God that hope is much more than how we feel on a given day. It exists outside of us

The scales will always tip in favor of what enriches your life. That’s the thing you’ll end up choosing.

My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

The more that accrues, the more depth, weight, and breadth we can bring to the poems, which we then need to throw overboard so we don't sink.

Champagne, if you are seeking the truth, is better than a lie detector.

Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

If you'll never leave me, I'll never leave you.

You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.