写作是一种理解世界的方式，是在世界中找到自己位置的方式。
"Crime is the noir version of the American Dream."
Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.
The melancholy science from which I make this offering to my friend relates to a region that from time immemorial was regarded as the true field of philosophy, but which, since the latter's conversion into method, has lapsed into intellectual neglect, sententious whimsy, and finally oblivion.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
"I am drawn to the lyric, the short poem, where every word has to be exact."
我从不回头看，我总是向前看。
"To write is to resist—to resist forgetting, to resist silence, to resist oppression."
