"I think it is in the nature of poetry to be open to the world, to be open to experience, to be open to the other."

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

活着就是受苦，生存就是在苦难中找到某种意义。

你可以吃任何想吃的甜品——如果你可以只吃三口的话。

我们希望被记住为一个努力的组合。

作家的任务是使熟悉的事物变得陌生，使陌生的事物变得熟悉。