我们必须为未来设计，同时尊重过去。
I don't have a method. I have a madness.
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
过去并非直线，而是错综复杂的网。
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.