一幅图画是一个事实。
A picture is a fact.
Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
作家必须甘于失败。
记忆是脆弱的，但它也是我们理解过去最强大的工具。
多一些事实，少一些矫饰废话。