"The world is not a wish-granting factory."

任何一代人最伟大的发现是，一个人可以通过改变态度来改变他的生活。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

文学教会我们用另一种眼光看世界，用另一种方式理解它。

Memory is fragile, and my work is about trying to preserve what inevitably disappears.