诗人的工作是命名不可命名之物，指出欺诈，选边站队，引发争论，塑造世界，并阻止它沉睡。

作家的任务不是告诉你该如何感受，而是告诉你一些事情并让你感受到它。

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

The most radical thing you can do is to be absolutely contextual.

在山的静默中，人发现风的流动；在森林的寂静中，人听见大地的声音。

"I am a writer, not a speaker."