Can such stiff and formal moldings as words capture the spirit-essence of love?

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

What a man does in his own house cannot concern the nation.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together.

The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and its women.

For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly to men and deny them to women. Men and women are born free and equal in ability and brain. The injustice begins after birth.

Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.