For so many, death is a liberation from intolerable human conditions.

I see things and I hear things I do not understand. I'm a skilled, resourceful... vegetable!

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from the earliest dynasties.