Everybody contributes something to the system, and everybody suffers from the system.

A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.

I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished four hundred pages and realize the first hundred aren't working.

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.

Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end.

Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say.