文学的作用是直面我们内心的黑暗，并找到克服它的方法。
The role of literature is to confront the darkness within us and to find a way to overcome it.
At the close of our studies， we knew all the past of physics， but nothing of the present and the future.
我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。