“如果你活到100岁，那么我希望活到100岁减去1天，这样我的生活中就不会失去你啦。”

I’m not afraid to be vulnerable. It’s part of being human.

Art grows out of necessity, not out of fashion.

"Memory is a battlefield, not an archive."

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

"Literature is the bridge between cultures, a way to traverse the distances that separate us."