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.

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.

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.

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.

The human heart is my school.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

Anyone who wants to be a leader must be the servant, not the boss, of those he wants to serve.

I treated her like a pair of gloves. When I was cold, I called her up.

I feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built." (On construction of reviewing stands for inauguration of his successor John F Kennedy)

I didn't watch one tape on Pacquiao. There is no reason to study him. He's not at this level.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.