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.

The most important thing in life is to be yourself. Unless you can be Batman, always be Batman.

经验不过是人们给自己的错误起的名字。

写作是一种信仰的行为——对语言、对读者、对故事本身的信仰。