"Language is the bridge between the soul and the world, and literature is the art of crossing that bridge."
数百万人看到苹果落下,但牛顿问了为什么。
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
In literature, the marvelous begins where explanation ends.
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.