I found solace in music when the world felt too heavy.

在那里的泥土里，这种种子多得成灾。而一棵猴面包树苗，假如你拔得太迟，就再也无法把它清除掉。它就会盘踞整个星球。它的树根能把星球钻透，如果星球很小，而猴面包树很多，它就把整个星球搞得支离破碎。

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

In Russia, severity of laws is compensated for by their non-enforcement.