The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

做一个有道德的人，就是要付出、必须付出某种关注。

I'm not a perfectionist, but I like to feel that things are done well. More important than that, I feel an endless need to learn, to improve, to evolve.

股市是投资业务的一个巨大干扰。

每张专辑都是一段旅程。

小说是让不可见的东西变得可见的艺术。

Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.