Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

I am sick and tired of coming good on expectations.

The price we pay for being different may be severe.

Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping.

Love is not blind but it leads to blindness.

Any kind of manipulation with human embryos should be prohibited.

As almost anyone with war experience knows, you're never supposed to show the enemy what you won't do to win.

Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

The revolutionary's role is to liberate, and to be liberated, with the people--not to win them over.

When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer.