"The essence of literature is to capture the fleeting moments of human experience and give them permanence through words."
文学的本质是捕捉人类经验的瞬息万变，并通过文字赋予它们永恒性。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Dreams are made possible if you try.