A gentleman is someone who does not what he wants to do, but what he should do.

My grandpa always said asking a question is embarrassing for a moment, but not asking is embarrassing for a lifetime.

What do we talk about? Just ordinary things. What happened today, or books we've read, or tomorrow's weather, you know. Don't tell me you're wondering if people jump to their feet and shout stuff like 'It'll rain tomorrow if a polar bear eats the stars tonight!

It is however, difficult to make your narratives relative by yourself. A novelists' work is to provide models to make your narratives relative. If you read my novels then you may feel, "I have the same experience as this narrative", or "I have the same idea as this novel". It means that your narrative and mine sympathize, concord and resonate together.

I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?

In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know are like Siamese twins, inseparable, existing in a state of confusion.

Even if you managed to escape from one cage, weren't you just in another, larger one?