Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is.

Whatever I do in life, I'm almost always aware that there's another way to do it.

The independents are the ones who tend to commit suicide. I'm not against this way of being in the world. Individuals have brought us many treasures. You can't just say that's a bad way of being in the world - it's not. But it's not everyone's way of being in the world.

I think that there is a bias in the current literary climate, which is not only very Western but very male.

Anything is possible. A man is what he makes up his mind to be.

A white person was by definition somebody. Other people needed, across their hearts, one steel rib.

I hate to generalize because there are always so many exceptions to any rule.