To be a writer is to be a thief of other people's lives.

钱财像粪土一样轻贱，仁义像千锭金银一样贵重。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

夜晚是个骗子，但黎明说出真相。

1983年12月，杨振宁向邓小平建议