"A story is a way to say something that cannot be said any other way."
To write is to confront the chaos of existence and give it meaning.
治理天下的人,就像牧马的人一样,关键是要除去害群之马。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.