After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember?

A psychiatrist does not want you to wake up. He tells you to dream some more, to find the pond and pour more tears into it. And really, he's just another bird drinking from your misery.

People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.

All objects exist in a moment of time.

I was punched breathless by the strongest emotions I have ever felt and they are now stored in my intuition as a writer.

I thought I was clever enough to write as well as these people and I didn't realize that there is something called originality and your own voice.

Chaos is the penance for leisure.