I profess both to learn and to teach anatomy, not from books but from dissections.

诗人的职责是照亮黑暗。

The best stories are those that resonate with our own hidden thoughts.

I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

文学是燃烧在灵魂中的火焰，照亮我们存在的最黑暗角落。