写作是理解我们挣扎的一种方式。

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words.

I have never been able to write a happy play. I can't. I can write a funny play, but not a happy play.

谋划先于行动，就会繁荣昌盛；行动先于谋划，就会失败灭亡。点评：《中庸》曾言「凡事豫则立，不豫则废。」没有事先的计划和准备，做事情很难成功的。

生命太短暂，不能随波逐流。