每本书都是一次旅程，每次旅程都是一本书。

——《民族主义第一讲》

Writing is a way of questioning the world, of trying to understand it.

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."