But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and boldly at life, and write about real flesh and blood. It is high time for a brand-new arena for literature, high time for some bold fighters to charge headlong into battle!

Though science has given us many marvels, it has also spoiled many of our pleasant dreams.

The most horrible thing is not a government that stages public executions, but a government that secretly disposes of its victims.

Like students going to school, the planes on their bombing missions fly over Beijing each morning. And each time I hear their engines attack the air I feel a certain slight tension, as if I were witnessing the invasion of Death, though this heightens my consciousness of the existence of Life.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.