虽然不相见

爱与痛，是尘世跋涉的双足——没有爱，我们将无法给予自己和他人快乐；没有痛，我们将不懂令自己和他人远离痛苦。爱成就仁慈，痛成就悲悯。

死亡的幻象

在每一世之后，你的身体已经变得非常疲倦，所以你需要一个新的身体、新的显现。旧有的波浪已经消失了，但是那个滚滚的水仍然停留在海洋里，它将会再度以新的波浪出现，旧的一直在变成新的，你要允许它、生命按照它的方式去走，而你带着很深的信任跟着它走。

玫瑰的名字

以前我们总是仰望天空，恼怒地乜斜物质的淤泥浊水；现在我们却俯视大地，并在大地的印证下相信上天。

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.