「The best way to protect yourself is to not expect your partner to love you, not expect your parents to understand you, not expect your children to repay you. All comfortable relationships stem from having no expectations of each other.

Why is art so beautiful? Because it is useless. Life is ugly because it is full of purposes, intentions, and motives.」
—The villagers understand art the least; their favorite saying is "it's useless". This person is useful, that person is useless, this thing is useful, that thing is useless. Life in the village is too hard. They can't even find the leisure to enjoy and experience art.