I could not blot out hope, for hope belongs to the future.

Whoever thinks he is objective must already be half drunk.

Creation, even when it is a mere outpouring from the heart, wishes to find a public. By definition, creation is sociable. Yet it can be satisfied with merely one single reader: an old friend, a lover.

Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.

You have to reform yourself before reforming society and the world.

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.

Lies written in ink cannot disguise facts written in blood.