The most elegant theories are useless if they don't correspond to reality.

Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.

文学是一种抵抗的形式，是保持记忆鲜活和对抗遗忘的方式。