过去从未消逝，它甚至没有过去。这在侦探小说中尤其如此。
The past is never dead; it's not even past. This is especially true in detective fiction.
The question is not whether the thing exists， but whether it has any essence which is capable of existence without us.
The soul of a place is captured not in its monuments, but in its stories.
I am not a storyteller, but a story-maker.
她变成了她自己，每天都在抛弃我们想象中的自我，而这种自我就像一件衣服，我们可以穿着它出现在世界面前。