It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

I have to do this, as long as it is at all possible; for if those who are obliged to look after commas had always made sure they were in the right place, then Shanghai would not be burning.

The sound principle of a topsy-turvy lifestyle in the framework of an upside-down world order has stood every test.

I trim my opponents to fit my arrows.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.