"Love is not about possession. It's about presence."
I'm not perfect, but I'm perfectly me.
写作是一种祈祷形式。
The most basic human desire is to be recognized as a human being, and the most basic human fear is to be treated as less than human.
"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.
Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.