我们生来就带着某种包袱。我们就是我们:我们出生的地方,我们出生的身份,我们被抚养的方式。我们有点被困在那个人的身体里,而文明和成长的目的就是能够伸出手去,对其他人的感受有一点点的同情。
We are all born with a certain package. We are who we are: where we were born, who we were born as, how we were raised. We're kind of stuck inside that person, and the purpose of civilization and growth is to be able to reach out and empathize a little bit with other people.
写作的行为是一种勇气的行为,是对生命短暂本质的挑战。
"The historian is a prophet looking backwards."
书写爱情就是以人类最脆弱也最强大的形式来书写人性。
Neither power nor wealth, only the scepters of art endure.
所有才能中最有价值的是能用一句话时绝不用两句话。
研究学习的唯一有意义的方法是通过客观测量。