Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

最好的想法往往来自倾听那些最接近问题的人。

最终，我们都是故事。重要的是我们如何讲述它们。

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.