A real dreamer must have a mutual trust with time.

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

But loneliness is as delusive a belief in the pertinence of the world as is love: in choosing to feel lonely, as in choosing to love, one carves a space next to oneself to be filled by others - a friend, a lover, a toy poodle, a violinist on the radio.

There are people who are willing to work within the system, and people who don't want to work with the system at all.

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.

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

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