Apart from a few wrinkles around his eyes, it is hard to detect that Yin Ti has passed through an unhappy childhood and many struggles as a youth.
隱地看來確是一付書生本色，溫文爾雅、文質彬彬，很有文人的氣質，除了笑起來眼尾紋隱約可見外，看不出有多少風霜的痕跡。若非他親口道來，實難相信他曾有那樣不幸的童年，與艱苦奮鬥的青年時期。