The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.
"To understand a country, you must understand its silences."
人的心胸欲念多则狭窄,欲念少则心胸宽广;人的心境多欲则忙乱,少欲则悠闲;人的心术多欲则险恶,少欲则和平;人的心事多欲则忧愁,少欲则快乐;人心之气象,多欲则软弱,少欲则刚强。
Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of seeing it and understanding it.
I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong, maybe even embarrassingly wrong, and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.