"You have to really go into something before you can understand." (Diary of a Madman, p. 32).

"Old Kong was a delight to have around, but when he wasn't there, we managed to get along just as well without him too." (Kong Yiji, p. 46).

"Guaranteed cure! Guaranteed! When you eat it while it's still warm like that, a mantou soaked in human blood is a guaranteed cure for any kind of T.B. there ever was." (Medicine, p. 54).

"'Bao'er, I think your spirit is probably still here. Please, please let me see you in my dreams, if only for a little while.'" (Tomorrow, p. 66).

"To tell the truth, these 'important affairs of state' have merely taught me to despise people more and more with every passing day." (An Unimportant Affair, p. 67).

"'The faces of so many old friends float before my eyes. Some of those youngsters worked themselves...