人生应为生而食，不应为食而生。

"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."

在文学中，边界消失了；剩下的只有人类情感的普世语言。

The biographer's task is to resurrect the past, not to judge it.

过去总是与我们同在，它塑造了我们是谁。