The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any society, because it seeks to turn other ideas — uncertainty, progress, change — into crimes.

你的黑暗无法褪去是因为我。

"Every idea has a motor consequence."

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."

Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.