I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.

生命太短暂，不要把时间浪费在不能让你灵魂快乐的事情上。

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;