The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

解释：知道房屋漏雨的人在房屋下，知道政策有失误的人在民间，知道经书错误的人在诸子。

写作的行为是对遗忘的一种抵抗。

"The past is never dead; it’s not even past until we’ve written it."

每一个故事都是一个谜题，而作家的任务是以一种揭示更深层次真相的方式将这些碎片拼凑起来。

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

城市是一个共享的房子，我们都是它的建筑师。