A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
故事是作者写给自己的一封信，用来告诉自己那些他无法以其他方式发现的事情。
如果一个聪明人干了一件蠢事，那就不会是一件小小的蠢事。
故事是我们记住自己是谁的方式。
The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.