Chinese people don't care about freedom, but they do care about justice.

What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

No one is immune from either taking the wrong action or not taking action at all, but the sense that something is completely out of a person's control is stronger in China.

The decaying that had dragged on for too long had only turned tragedy into nuisance; death, when it strikes, better completes its annihilating act on the first try.

There is a certain amount of politeness here in America, which is probably more than just politeness.