"I am a writer, not a speaker."
我是一個作家,而不是一個演說家。
"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
應對一個不自由的世界的唯一方法,就是變得如此絕對自由,以至于你的存在本身就是一種反抗。
"I am not interested in the beautiful, I am interested in the true."
"The world is full of victims, and I am one of them."
世界上充滿了受害者,而我就是其中之一。
"I write against something, not for something."
我寫作是為了反對某些東西,而不是支持某些東西。
"Language is violence, and I am its victim."
語言是暴力,而我是它的受害者。
"I don't think that literature should be a moral institution."
我不認為文學應該是一個道德機構。
"The world is a text, and we are all its readers and writers."
世界是一本書,我們都是它的讀者和作者。
"I am not interested in the surface of things, but in what lies beneath."
我對事物的表面不感興趣,而是對隱藏在表面之下的東西感興趣。
"The act of writing is an act of resistance."
寫作的行為是一種抵抗的行為。