The power of abstraction is that it allows us to reason about systems at a higher level, without getting bogged down in the details.
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
世上并没有纯粹的无意识行动，只要我们善于去寻找，都能从内心找出行动原因。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.