Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Dance like nobody's watching, love like you've never been hurt.
做你自己，因为别人已经有人做了。
The historian must have some kinship with his subject. The dead will not speak unless they are properly addressed.