我们必须通过写作来面对我们的恐惧和痛苦。
We must face our fears and pain through writing.
鸟快要死的时候，叫声是悲切的，人快要死的时候，说话是善良的。
Shame is the most intimate feeling, yet it connects us all.
"Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it."
小说不是作者的自白；它是对人类生活在世界陷阱中的调查。
The more you give, the more they take.
符号是仪式的最小单位，仍然保留了仪式行为的特定属性。
生活是一段旅程，而不是目的地。
When we understand knowledge-based systems, it will be as before -- except our fingertips will have been singed.