The truth, as always, will be far stranger.
我们民主的最大祝福是自由。但归根结底,我们唯一的自由是自律的自由。
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.
It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and shameful things.
"The act of writing is an act of resistance against the chaos of the world."