The ocean’s limits are not negotiable; our practices must adapt.

我拒绝让任何人让我沉默。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

世界充满了故事，但我们选择讲述的那些故事定义了我们。