The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.

痛苦是上帝不会让它在太脆弱的枝干上成熟的果实。

决心：该做的事情一定要做，要做的事情一定做好。

The future of coal lies in balancing environmental responsibility with energy demands.

如果你理解，那就不是上帝。

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe whether it call itself my home, my fatherland or my church.

写作不是表演，而是一种慷慨。