The only true heroism in the world is to see the world as it is and still love it.

——2004年在南京航空学院上的演讲

"Language is not just a tool for communication; it is a bridge to the soul."

I don't think about being the best, I think about progressing and enjoying what I do.

The past is not a straight line but a tangled web.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.