How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

A writer is a person who is obsessed with language, with words, with the power of words to create worlds.

我离开职位的时间越长，我就越觉得自己是无所不能的。

每天我都发现越来越多的美好事物，这足以让人疯狂。我有如此强烈的欲望去做所有事情。