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.