People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.

I'll continue on the path I've been taking, feet on the ground, describing people's lives, describing people's emotions, writing from the standpoint of the ordinary people.

All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition.

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.