To be a writer is to be a professional observer.
成为一名作家就是成为一名专业的观察者。
One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
一个人永远无法到达家，但无论友好的道路在哪里交汇，整个世界都会暂时看起来像家。
The past is always tense, the future perfect.
过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。
"We are all the authors of our own lives, but we are also the characters in someone else's story."
我们都是自己生活的作者，但我们也是别人故事中的角色。
"To live is to be haunted by the ghosts of what might have been."
生活就是被可能发生的事情的幽灵所困扰。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
过去是一个异国；他们在那里做事的方式不同。
"We are all storytellers, weaving the fabric of our lives with the threads of our memories."
我们都是讲故事的人，用记忆的线编织我们生活的织物。
"The act of writing is an act of rebellion against the passage of time."
"We are all prisoners of our own experiences, and yet we can never fully understand them."
我们都是自己经历的囚徒，然而我们永远无法完全理解它们。
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
真相很少是纯粹的，也从不简单。