"Writing is a way of making sense of the chaos of life."
我们今天选择的材料将成为我们明天留下的遗产。
The act of writing is an act of defiance against the chaos of the world.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Memory is not just personal, it's collective. We remember through others and others remember through us.
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.