Friday, May 02, 2008

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being.

His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

-- Pearl S. Buck

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, most familiarly known as Pearl S. Buck (birth name Pearl Comfort Sydenstricker; Chinese: 赛珍珠; pinyin: Sài Zhēnzhū) (June 26, 1892March 6, 1973), was a prolific American writer who won a Nobel Prize in Literature and a Pulitzer Prize.

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