我认为不能比较不同的时代。每个时代都有自己的挑战和独特之处。

The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt it didn't matter.

【译文】冰与炭不能长久共存，寒与暑不会同时到来。

At the back of my mind I had a sense of us sitting about waiting for some terrible event, and then I would remember that it had already happened.

We are all stories in the end.

——过去，电影里典型的角色分配就是留着辫子蹦来蹦去。就跟印第安人一样，你在电视上永远都不会看到印第安人的真身。