"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us."

"The journey not the arrival matters."

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The act of writing is an act of transformation.

书是一份永远不会失去价值的宝藏。

自然是一个活生生的整体，而非死寂的集合体。