作家的职责是讲述真相，即使它令人不适或不便。

I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man.

出自北齐·颜之推《颜氏家训·勉学》。博士：指学识渊博的人。一个学识渊博的人打算去买一头驴，可是写了三页纸也没有见到一个“驴”字。这句话常用来讽刺文章文辞繁冗、不得要领、苍白空洞。

Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.