The human animal is a bad animal.

"The act of creation is an act of defiance against the void."

"A novel is a long piece of prose with something wrong with it."

"La ciudad no es sólo un escenario, es un personaje más en la historia."

Memory is not a recording device but a system that actively organizes and reconstructs information.

爱情里面要是搀杂了和它本身无关的算计，那就不是真的爱情。

I don't want to be a winner. I want to be a warrior.

"We inherit not only our parents’ features but also their silences."