The novel is the most democratic of all art forms because it depends only on the reader’s imagination.

道的法则本是无为而自然，似有似无，玄妙难测。

Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners.

The only way to survive in this world is to numb yourself to its horrors.

我们拥有的最大资源是人类的聪明才智。

The greatest happiness is to transform one’s feelings into action.

Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not.