美人何处

她曾向往的光明未来，她等待了十八年，却只拥有了十八天，而这十八天，不是用来享受的，而是心灰意冷，彻悟前尘

你要么出众，要么出局

Stand out or get out.

文化苦旅

时间和文字在一个个老庭院里厮磨，这是文化存在的极温暖方式。千般荒凉，以此为梦；万里蹀躞，以此为归。

自深深处

You admired my work when it was finished: you enjoyed the brilliant successes of my first nights, and the brilliant banquets that followed them: you were proud, and quite naturally so, of being the intimate friend of an artist so distinguished: but you could not understand the conditions requisite for the production of artistic work. I am not speaking in phrases of rhetorical exaggeration but in terms of absolute truth to actual fact when I remind you that during the whole time we were together I never wrote one single line. Whether at Torquay, Goring, London, Florence or elsewhere, my life, as long as you were by my side, was entirely sterile and uncreative. And with but few intervals you were, I regret to say, by my side always.