The important thing is to develop the capacity to see one thing through the lens of another, to see the general in the particular.
重要的是培养透过一种事物观察另一种事物的能力，从特殊中看到普遍。
在生活的混乱中，文学提供了一刻的清晰。
美国是世界上最强大的国家，在可预见的未来仍将如此。
The body is the first tool of the artist.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.