Independence is the soul of a nation.

我希望读者能感受到一些令人惊讶的东西。不是“发生了什么”，而是所有事情发生的方式。这些长篇短篇小说对我来说是最好的。

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.