陌生人与我们亲近，因为我们在他们和我们自己之间感受到民族、社会、职业或普遍人性的共同特征。他们与我们疏远，因为这些共同特征超出了他们或我们，并且只因为它们连接了许多人而连接我们。
The stranger is close to us, insofar as we feel between him and ourselves common features of a national, social, occupational, or generally human, nature. He is far from us, insofar as these common features extend beyond him or us, and connect us only because they connect a great many people.
I've learned that failure is just part of the process, and you can't let it define you.
Don't be afraid to take risks and try new things.
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes."
Writing is that neutral, composite, oblique space where our subject slips away, the negative where all identity is lost, starting with the very identity of the body writing.
