Every performance, I hope to surpass myself.

"Writing is a way of living, a way of being in the world, a way of understanding the world."

The most beautiful things in life are not things, they're moments.

最大的力量不在于控制他人，而在于理解他们。

"A verdadeira literatura não tem medo de enfrentar a realidade, por mais dura que seja."

In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.

"Censorship creates better poets and more cunning novelists - we learn to whisper in colors and shout in metaphors."

2012年莫言诺贝尔文学奖演讲稿