作家的生活是高度脆弱、几乎赤裸的活动。我们不必为此哭泣。作家做出了选择并坚持它。但可以说，你向所有的风敞开，其中一些确实冰冷。你独自一人，处于危险之中。你找不到庇护，没有保护——除非你撒谎——在这种情况下，你当然已经构建了自己的保护，可以说，成为了一个政治家。
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any society, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.
神圣的观念在任何社会中都是最保守的观念之一，因为它试图将其他观念——不确定性、进步、变化——变成罪行。
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
To understand just one life, you have to swallow the world.
要理解一个生命，你必须吞下整个世界。
A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
We are all migrants through time.
我们都是时间的移民。
The only people who see the whole picture are the ones who step out of the frame.
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
世界上充满了神奇的事物，耐心地等待着我们的感官变得更加敏锐。
Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems.
现实是一个视角问题；你离过去越远，它就显得越具体和可信。
To be born again, first you have to die.
要重生，首先你得死。
We all owe death a life.
我们都欠死亡一条命。