文学是一种理解世界的方式，是在混乱中找到意义，在无意义中找到意义。

The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.

我不知道是妈妈对，还是丹中尉对，我不知道，是否我们每个人都有，注定的命运，还是我们的生命中只有偶然，像在风中飘。但我想：也许两者都有吧，也许两者都在同时发生着。

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, built that way, but the mind, the mind is full of light.

I have always been attracted by the fantastic, the strange, the surreal.

The human figure is the most direct way to engage with political and social issues.

有些鸟是注定不会被关在笼子里，因为它们的每一片羽毛都闪耀着自由的光辉。