I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist.

  • -- Clifford Geertz 吉尔兹

我认为我自己是一个作家,碰巧作为人类学家在写作。

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I have a problem with cabinets being messy and people just shoving things in and closing the door. I will lie in bed and not be able to sleep because I'll say to myself: 'I think I saw something in that cabinet that just shouldn't be there.'

我有一个问题,橱柜很乱,人们只是把东西塞进去,然后把门关上。我会躺在床上睡不着,因为我会对自己说:‘我想我在那个柜子里看到了不该在那里的东西。’

If there is no mystery, for the artist, to solve inside of his art, then there's no point in it. . . . for me, every act of art is the act of solving a mystery.

如果对艺术家来说,他的艺术中没有什么神秘的东西,那么它就没有意义……对我来说,每一个艺术行为都是解开一个谜。

There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

在写作中,你会不断地体会到突然发现的喜悦和意外的快乐。

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

我没有梦想。我该怎么说呢?我自己就是一个梦。