Regret is the poison we drink hoping someone else will die.

"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."

"To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that what one has to say is important enough for others to hear."

一幅画必须是它自身的东西，而不是其他事物的再现。