"To write is to give voice to the voiceless, to illuminate the shadows of our world."

"We are all haunted by the ghosts of our younger selves."

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

言语是智者的筹码，他们只是用它们来计算；但它们是愚人的金钱。

有时我会感到，我伸展开来覆盖大地、延伸进万物：我感到自己生活在每一棵树木中、生活在浪花中、生活在往来无定的云朵和动物中、生活在季节的轮回中。