So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

A picture must be a thing in itself, not a representation of something else.

时间是文学唯一的真正裁判。

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

"We live in time—it holds us and moulds us—but I’ve never felt I understood it very well."

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.