I don't need a reason to love myself.
I write to understand what has happened to me, to transform my shame into language.
理解变化的唯一方法是投入其中,随之而动,加入舞蹈。
译文:有幸遇到世道太平、年成丰收,正好借此偷闲,此时诸事顺遂。在忘却世俗机心之处,心境如平静的水波,仿佛独自镇守在水晶宫般安宁。
Literature is a fire that burns within us, a fire that consumes and purifies, a fire that illuminates and warms.