小说是理解他者最强大的工具。

虽然有千辛万苦、千难万阻，哪怕我只是莹虫之光，结局是粉身碎骨，身败名裂，依然在所不辞、初心不改。

生活是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。

艺术是一种生存方式。

You can't run a business, or anything, on a theory.

And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.