Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
语言塑造了我们的思维方式，并决定了我们可以思考的内容。
Minha pátria é a língua portuguesa.
Literature is a force that can change the world.
You have to be willing to be alone to be a writer.
For me they normally happen, these career crises, often, actually, on a Sunday evening, just as the sun is starting to set, and the gap between my hopes for myself and the reality of my life starts to diverge so painfully that I normally end up weeping into a pillow.