Loneliness is a lifelong companion, an established fact. Instead of denying it, fighting it, and avoiding it needlessly, you’d better accept it, let it protect you from going home in the crowd, and let it accompany you to breakfast on Saturday morning and tidy up the sunshine.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

君子心中常常体会到的不是人情而是天理；君子口中所常说的不是人伦世故而是世间法理；君子常有的行为不是规矩而是行为的原则。