佛陀传

执著与分别心，都是导致自己和他人受苦的根源。所有人真正渴望着的爱，是慈爱和悲心。

三作家

那些游离于自己所处的时代的人们，恰恰是新时代所赏识的。最微妙的精神震荡产生最长的电波，超越时代，直到永远。

偶然的创造

我们碰巧成为自己，但我们可以不止于此。

如何读，为什么读

Melville was not a Christian, and tended to identify with the ancient Gnostic heresy, in which the creator God of this world is a bungler and impostor, while the true God, called the Stranger or Alien God, is exiled somewhere in the outer regions of the cosmos.Early, major Faulkner is a kind of unknowing Gnostic; West, Pynchon, and McCarthy in their different ways are very knowing indeed. My subject is how to read their best fiction, and why, and not how to instruct my own readers in ancient heterodoxies (at least not here!), but the first sequence of four novels that I have chosen, in the wake of Melville, achieve their negative splendors in modes parallel to Gnostic visions, as we will see.