The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

The world has become uglier since it began to look into a mirror every day; so let us settle for the mirror image and do without an inspection of the original.

News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

Scandal begins when the police put a stop to it.

I am already so popular that anyone who vilifies me becomes more popular than I am.

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.

One can translate an editorial but not a poem. For one can go across the border naked but not without one's skin; for, unlike clothes, one cannot get a new skin.