对各种权威的怀疑源于这次经历，这种态度从未离开过我。

当一个人做出彻底的蠢事，那通常是出于最高尚的动机。

To write is to give shape to the unseen.

政府的腐败几乎总是始于其原则的衰败。

爱国不是选择，而是责任。

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.