I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
我认为这是写作中最重要的单一事情：它使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。
一个人愈没有值得自夸之处，就愈容易夸耀自己的国家、宗教、种族或他参与的神圣事业。
La memoria es el único paraíso del cual no podemos ser expulsados.
"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know."
"The world is a library of stories, and every person is a book."