Every story is a lie, but some lies are more true than others.

每个故事都是谎言，但有些谎言比其他谎言更真实。

We are all prisoners of our own stories, but we can choose how to tell them.

我们都是自己故事的囚徒，但我们可以选择如何讲述它们。

Literature is a way to understand the world, to make sense of the chaos, to find meaning in the meaningless.

文学是一种理解世界的方式，是在混乱中找到意义，在无意义中找到意义。