“Use your intellect to guide you, and you will end up putting peopleoff. Rely on your emotions, and you will forever be pushed around.Force your will on others, and you will live in constant tension...”

“Watch birth and death:The lotus has alreadyOpened its flower.”

“As I see it, youre always unsteady on your legs. You cant find your courage. Youll go to any length to avoid what displeases you, and you gallop after whatever you want. And why is that? There is n...”

“I may be someone who was always destined to spend my life wandering aimlessly. I cant settle down. The cruel part is, I want to settle down and the world wont let me. So what choice do I have but t...”

“Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but its taboo in social intercourse.”

“People may make fun of me because Im wearing something odd, but its still good to be alive.”

“A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.”

“I would write:"The soft melting hunk of butter trickled in gold down the stringy grooves of the split yam."Or:"The child's clumsy fingers fumbled in sleep, feeling vainly for the wish of its dream....”

“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.”

“Semua orang pernah patah hati. All you have to do is move on.”

“A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images.”

“If you only write when youre inspired you may be a fairly decent poet, but youll never be a novelist because youre going to have to make your word count today and those words arent going to wait fo...”

“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”