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.

To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday.

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.

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

Even the most innocent person, when cornered, is capable of a heartless crime.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?