The city is like a great palimpsest, a manuscript that has been written and rewritten over the centuries.

一个人只有通过尽可能少说谎来尽可能少说谎，而不是通过尽可能少的机会来做到这一点。

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

我从未打算出名。我只是想演奏音乐。