文学的本质是捕捉生命的瞬间。

How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our life is not our life, merely the story we have told about our life.

一个国家的价值，从长远来看，就是它所组成的个体的价值。

艺术中没有必须，因为艺术是自由的。

野性之物是由人类历史塑造的。