We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — 'Yes, that's the way it is, or at least that's the way I feel it.'

写作是一次进入未知的旅程，一次对真理和美的追求。

The crime and not the scaffold makes the shame.

朗兰兹纲领的美在于它能够揭示隐藏的联系。