Although I felt that I, an exile in the land of exiles, belonged ever more to a world to which no one can really be said to belong, on September 11, 2001, I was finally able to proclaim, “I am a New Yorker,” just as President Kennedy had declared himself a Berliner when that former National Socialist capital was in danger of becoming a Communist capital.
尽管是流亡者国度中的流亡者，尽管没有谁能够真正归属于这个国度，但我觉得自己的归属感却前所未有的强烈，2001年的9月11日，就像肯尼迪总统在柏林，这座前国家社会主义的首都即将沦为共产主义都会之际宣告自己是柏林人一样，我终于能够骄傲地宣称，“我是纽约人！”