Are women really wonderful things? Maybe they are. Yes, women are wonderful things, but when all is said and done, they aren't really “things". - Mo Yan

The relationship between man and liquor embodies virtually all contradictions involved in the process of human existence and development.

Where there's life, death is inevitable. Dying's easy; it's living that's hard. The harder it gets, the stronger the will to live. And the greater the fear of death, the greater the struggle to keep on living.

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?