Once, when a friend asked Chou to inscribe a collection he'd just purchased, Chou gave the man something he'd just written in his notebook: "The things on which life depends determine life's nature or manner."
曾有朋友買周夢蝶的詩集而請他題字，周公當下把剛剛記在筆記本上的心得題給了朋友──「生活憑藉（條件），決定了生活的性質或方式。」