写作是一种保存短暂事物的方式。
Writing is a way of preserving the ephemeral.
It is hard to read a newspaper or watch a television newscast without encountering someone who has come up with a new 'solution' to society's 'problems.'
The novel is a protest against the irreversibility of time.
The more you lose, the more you learn. The more you learn, the better you get.