无论我们承认与否，过去总是存在于我们的生活中。
"The past is always present in our lives, whether we acknowledge it or not."
学习的最好方式是教学。
"A good novel should unsettle you, make you question what you thought you knew."
Life is too short to be living somebody else’s dream.
"The art of the novel is the art of being simultaneously inside and outside of things."
When I was in college， I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.