Writing is a way to confront the past.

群星不会因为像萤火虫而怯於出现。

边界是地球脸上的伤疤，是暴力和分裂的标记。

The final test of a novel is whether you care so much for the people that you want to know what happens to them next.

过去已经写就，墨迹已干。

化用古人诗句，形容自然之宏大与人力之渺小。

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

"In the end, the only thing that matters is the truth."