I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

We must listen to the whispers of the ancestors, for they hold the wisdom of the ages.

亲属关系的研究，即我们所谓的人类社会的社会解剖学的研究。

The writer's task is to name the unnameable.

我对那些在挣扎中、试图弄清楚某些事情的角色感兴趣。

The artist's role is to question, not to answer.