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 beauty of life lies in the details.

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember, convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.

小说是一种探索的形式，一种提出没有答案的问题的方式。