The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
创作行为并不纯粹。历史证明了这一点。社会学提取了它。作家失去了伊甸园,写作是为了被阅读,并逐渐意识到他是需要负责的。
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
The role of art is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
我不需要理由去变得伟大。
The causal revolution is about giving machines the ability to reason about the world as we do.