“For men and women are not only themselves; they are also the region in which they were born, the city apartment or the farm in which they learnt to walk, the games they played as children, the tales they overheard, the food they ate, the schools they attended, the sports they followed, the poets they read and the God they believed in. It is all these things that have made them what they are, and these are the things that you can’t come to know by hearsay, you can only know them if you have lived them. You can only know them if you are them.”
“因为人不论男男女女，都不仅仅是他们自身；他们也是自己出生的乡土，学步的农场或城市公寓，儿时玩的游戏，私下听来的山海经，吃的饭食，上的学校，关心的运动，吟哦的诗章，和信仰的上帝。这一切东西把他们造成现在这样，而这些东西都不是道听途说就可以了解的，你非得和那些人生活过。要了解这些，你就得是这些。 ”
