I hope she'll be a fool—that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

We are all obsessed with the idea of the frontier, but it's a frontier that keeps receding.

Memory is the bridge between the past and the future.

成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时刻坐在桌前写作；不是等待从胸骨中迸发出天才的蓝色火焰——只是写作。