The writer’s life is a life of solitude.

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.

最难坦白的不是犯罪的事情，而是荒谬和可耻的事情。

不担心别人不了解自己，担心的是自己不能了解别人。