The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

"Light is the language of painting, shadows are its punctuation."

译文：即使是钝刀，也希望能有一次锋利的机会；梦想着施展抱负，实现宏伟的计划。

"Change begins with the courage to question the status quo."

The great struggle of the twentieth century was between liberalism and totalitarianism.