"La ficción es la mentira que nos permite decir la verdad."

“头脑不是要填满的容器，而是要点燃的火焰。”

The world is full of small kindnesses, if you know where to look.

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

文学是人类集体的记忆。