"A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."

写作是理解过去的一种方式。

The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.

Light is the great revealer of form.

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

作家必须是一个愿意独处的人。