"Coming back after 30 years overseas, my biggest reward has been discovering the beauty of Taiwanese culture," says Lin Che-hsiung. He explains with fervor: "From the way I set up the New Tide Library to introduce Western thinking, you can see how typically blind I used to be to Taiwanese culture. All I thought about was world culture and Chinese culture; I knew nothing about Taiwanese culture."
「去國三十年，最大的收穫是認識台灣文化之美」，林哲雄感慨地表示：「從我以前策畫介紹西方思潮的『新潮文庫』，就可以看出我從前是典型的台灣文化文盲，心中只有世界文化、中國文化，沒有台灣文化。」