自由不是一种状态，而是一种态度。
我在追随自然，却无法完全抓住她。
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
The novel is the most complete representation of human experience.
The past is part of our present, and thus part of our future.
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling.