This is a record of informal conversations between Zha Jianying and Perry Link, two seasoned authors and translators who have spent their careers writing—and thinking—in both Chinese and English. In the conversation they discuss issues such as the challenges and pitfalls of translation, the issue of language and personal identity, the decision of writing in a second language rather than one’s native tongue, the prospects for machine translation, and the question “Is there such a thing as an ineffable thought?”