A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

The role of art is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

I don't write to be loved, I write to be understood.

信件是传记作者的金矿；它们揭示了官方记录所隐藏的东西。

When we can't talk about something, it becomes dangerous.