No 'we' should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people's pain.

[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

My library is an archive of longings.

I have to come out of the closet of the third person and speak in a more direct way.

Everything has changed and nothing is changed.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.