The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you’re in control of your life. If you don’t, life controls you.

"Literature is the bridge between the individual and the universal, connecting personal experience with the collective human condition."

We must challenge the status quo to find better ways of doing things.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

历代君王都很重视诚信，诚信是凝聚人心的纽带。

The museum is not a neutral space - it's a battleground of meanings.

"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow."