Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

伤口是光进入你内心的地方。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.