Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories - and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.
We are all strangers, even to ourselves.
作家的职责是成为一个麻烦制造者,和平的扰乱者。
The book is not an end in itself, it is a means of evocation.
过去的33年里,我每天早晨都会看着镜子问自己:“如果今天是我生命中的最后一天,我会想做今天将要做的事吗?”每当答案连续很多天都是“否”时,我知道我需要改变一些事情。