By day I was a slave; by night, I was a prince.

- Mu Xin

Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice.

- Mu Xin

Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent.

- Mu Xin

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

- Mu Xin

What is art in the final analysis? Art is the shining forth of one's interiority.

- Mu Xin

Did you ever find that there is room between the two opposing rules of a paradox? That space between two almost opposite rules is the ground where I …

- Mu Xin

I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.

- Mu Xin

If you ask me why I left China, it's just that I went for a stroll and strolled too far away.

- Mu Xin

Ideas' can be only in the distant background of a work of art, something like a very low horizon. In the middle distance and foreground... there shou…

- Mu Xin