I paint not to escape reality, but to confront it.
我画画不是为了逃避现实，而是为了面对它。
"Mathematics is the science of patterns, and nature exploits just about every pattern that there is."
And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.
The past is not just the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
文学的真正价值在于其揭示人类内心生活的能力。