作家的生活是一种孤独的生活。
文学是可能的艺术。
The best reader is the writer who reads his own work.
最好的读者是阅读自己作品的作家。
The great thing about fiction is that it makes everything interesting.
小说的伟大之处在于它让一切变得有趣。
I don’t write for the reader; I write for myself.
我不是为读者写作；我是为自己写作。
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
唯一让生活成为可能的，是永久且难以忍受的不确定性；不知道接下来会发生什么。
The writer’s job is to tell the truth.
作家的职责是讲述真相。
The past is the past, and that’s where it belongs.
过去就是过去，它属于那里。
The truth is that in America, the Jew is a figment of the Christian imagination.
在美国，犹太人其实是基督教想象的产物。
You build your life around the fact that you are going to die, and then you don’t die.
你围绕着自己终将死亡的事实构建生活，然后你没有死。
The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole. The Platonic union of souls.