事情
"Memory is a strange thing. It doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter. It creates a picture, but it's not always the same picture."
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.
"Every word knows something of a vicious circle."
I have often been asked how my plays come about. I cannot say. Nor can I ever sum up my plays, except to say that this is what happened. That is what they said. That is what they did.
Sometimes, the hardest thing and the right thing are the same.
人は、自分が正しいと思っていることを、他人にも強要する。
人生は、自分で決めたことしかできない。でも、自分で決めたことは、何でもできる。
"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."
O que importa não é o que acontece com você, mas o que você faz com o que acontece com você.
A vida é uma coisa muito rara.
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"To live is to be haunted by the ghosts of what might have been."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."