If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.

I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

我不创造乌托邦，我描绘现实。

父子之间要亲爱，君臣之间要有礼义，夫妇之间要挚爱但还要有内外之别，老少之间有尊卑之序，朋友之间要有诚信之德。

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

生活就像一本书，每一页都充满了未知的故事。