"You can’t just sit down and write a book. That’s not how books get written. Books get written by living your life, by being open to the world, by paying attention."

死者并非无力。我说过，死了吗？没有死亡，只有世界的变化。

永远不要低估人类精神的力量。它可以克服最不可能的困难。

The city is a living organism.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

I don’t let the past hold me back, I let it teach me.