Gao Xingjian

"In the snow outside my window I see a small green frog, one eye blinking and the other wide open, unmoving, looking at me . I know this is God."

"Life is fragile, yet to obstinately struggle is natural."

"I came to the riverbank. The sand underfoot crunches and sounds like my grandmother sighing. She is fond of chattering endlessly, although no-one understands her. If you ask, Grandmother, what did you…"

"She says she doesn’t know what to do! But he says coldly that he knows what he wants to do, but he can’t."

"The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is th…"

"Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience."

"Life is probably a tangle of love and hate permanently knotted together."

"Not knowing what one is looking for is pure agony. Too much analytical thinking, too much logic, too many meanings! Life has no logic, so why does there have to be logic to explain what it means? Also…"