A book is a mirror: if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

焦虑是自由的眩晕。

The only way to understand another culture is to assume the frame of reference of that culture.

"The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realignment with what had been before and now seemed a little worse."

写作是我对抗遗忘的方式。