My dad couldn't even afford a bicycle, now I have a motorcycle. When my son gets to be my age, he'll surely own a car.

Other than fruits, which we buy, we eat only what we grow and raise - rice and vegetables, and a pig, chickens and eggs.

We spend only 30,000 yuan to build our houses, but their homes cost 300,000 yuan.

They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. To-day, wrapped in the complacent armour of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one but lightly and are soon forgotten, but then—how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

Talk radio has made an enormous run around establishment media. But the Internet is making an end run around talk radio. Suddenly we're faced with an information age.