叙事是一面镜子，不仅反映了我们是什么，还反映了我们可能成为什么。

The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out.

Music should take you to another place.

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

Failure is not terrible; what's terrible is not daring to try.