The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Social progress requires the organic combination of individual freedom and social responsibility.

我所知道的最大快乐，是祕密的做善行，然后被人意外的发现。

"The world is a dream, and the dream is a nightmare."

I don’t like to be predictable.

老时相信一切，中年怀疑一切，青年知道一切。

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.