The best novels are those that manage to create autonomous worlds, worlds that function according to their own laws and logic.

你是一个不知道自己想要什么的人，直到你把它写在纸上。

I don't do things for the response or the controversy. I just live my life.

读书人应当以天下大事为自己的责任，不能仅仅做一个只会钻研书本的学者。

I think we have been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations.

Love is the only thing that can fill the eternal emptiness of the human heart.

解释：大部分药材都以新鲜为好，但艾草却以陈年的为佳，体现了药材使用的特殊性。