创作就是与缺席对话。
To create is to enter into a dialogue with absence.
我经历了生活中的许多坎坷，但我依然在这里
"Books are the way that we communicate with the dead. The way that we learn lessons from those who are no longer with us, that humanity has built on itself, progressed, made knowledge incremental rather than something that has to be relearned, over and over."