If you're an artist, you try to make sense out of one thing or another.
世界上充满了显而易见的事物,却没有人去观察。
The modern state is characterized by its ability to concentrate and use power in a way that premodern states could not.
每个故事都有一个结局,但在生活中,每个结局都只是一个新的开始。
——出席国民党上海交通部恳亲会,1913年1月10日
The task of the writer is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.