The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

文学是个人与普遍、个人与集体之间的桥梁。

Because I understand, I am compassionate.

The truth is, I am a bad liar. But I am a good listener.

The other thing about modern society and why it causes this anxiety, is that we have nothing at its center that is non-human. We are the first society to be living in a world where we don't worship anything other than ourselves. We think very highly of ourselves, and so we should; we've put people on the Moon, done all sorts of extraordinary things. And so we tend to worship ourselves.