六项精进

今天比昨天做的好，明天又比今天做得好，每一天都付出真挚的努力、不懈的工作、扎实的行动、诚恳的修为，这样，我们才不愧对这一生一世。

小说的艺术

惯性吞噬着工作、服饰、家具、配偶、对战争的畏惧……而艺术之所以存在，就是要让人们重新找回生命的感触；它存在的目的是为了让人们产生感受，让人们感受冷硬无情的事物之冷硬无情。艺术的目的是要把人们对事物的感官体悟——而不是理性认识——给揭示出来。

馥鳞

那寂静撩开人的心智，引人发狂

羞耻

The air there is full of unasked questions. But their smell is faint, and the flowers in the many maturing gardens, the trees lining the avenues, the perfumes worn by the beautiful soignee ladies of the neighbourhood quite overpower this other, too-abstract odour.You can get anywhere in Pakistan if you know people, even into jail.Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.Shame: a short word, but one containing encyclopaedias of nuance. It was not only shame that his mothers forbade him to feel, but also embarrassment, discomfiture, decency, modesty, shyness, the sense of having an ordained place in the world, and other dialects of emotion for which English has no counterparts.