"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

"I write about tyrants not because I fear them, but because I refuse to let them own my imagination."

"In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer."

【译文】 孔子说：“陪君子说话要注意三种毛病：没到说的时候就说，叫做急躁；到该说的时候不说，叫做隐瞒；不顾对方的表情就说，叫做睁眼瞎。”

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

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 tips of my words.