"Writing is a way of saying to the world, 'I exist, and I have something to say.'"

写作就像在一面从不说谎的镜子前裸露灵魂。

A book should be an experience, not just something you read.

I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means.

"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

The only thing that matters is the work itself.

The historian is a prophet looking backwards.

I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.