Tang Xianzu

"I should on this account like well enough to spend the whole of my life in travelling abroad, if I could an…"

"Fear is a powerful enemy, but a useful friend."

"He was dead. No point speculating. Cherish the past for what it was, an ideal, a signal that human happines…"

"Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?"

"If you're the sort of person who likes absolutes, you want them even if all your other convictions change."

"He was an admirer of the bullfight, and had once drawn my attention to the fact that only cricket and bullf…"