过去并非直线，而是错综复杂的网。
The past is not a straight line but a tangled web.
"Exile is not just a geographical concept. You can be an exile in your homeland, in your own house, in a room."
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
"In Edinburgh, the shadows are long, and the secrets are deeper."
The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.