"I am fortunate —— I’ve received a lot from life, I’ve harvested perfections upon perfections, even longing for greater fortune, further perfection; yet I have never chewed upon pain, as if all the receipts, gains, obtainments, and harvests arrived without embodying pain, while every loss, every misfortune, every incompleteness apparently carried all my pain far beyond my premises, from origin to terminus. "

—— Daniel DD Wang