Writing is a way to confront the things that we are afraid to confront in real life.

To understand a culture, one must first understand its language.

最有效的经济共同体建立在共同的伦理视野之上，包括社区成员彼此之间所承担的一系列道德义务。

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can’t take it in all at once.