He once said, "I learned from the calls of peddlers, such as those selling soy milk. I also learned from the deliberate sounds of classical poetry and the unfamiliar sounds of foreign literature."
他曾強調：「引車賣漿者流的聲音是我師，古人刻意的聲音是我師，甚至西方文字中其尤為駭異的聲音也是我師。」