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

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.

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