I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

I am shy by nature, a person who's always found something burdensome about human interaction and who probably always will, at least to some degree.

I'm here to ensure justice for my brother is going to be done. Losing my brother was the worst thing that's ever happened in my life.

I feel we'll always be connected in some way.

We were really expecting something (violent) to happen. I wasn't preparing myself for this because I wasn't expecting it to happen.

To celebrate his prosperity, fellow employees and friends urged him to take a young concubine to "serve him". Even Ye Ye's boss, the London-educated K. C. Li, jokingly volunteered to "give" him a couple of girls with his bonus. Ye Ye reported all this in a matter-of-fact way in a letter to his wife, adding touchingly that he was a "one-woman man".