To write is to make sense of the chaos.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections.

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishment.

作家的职责是照亮人类灵魂的阴影。