The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

Silence is not the absence of something but the presence of everything.

You've got to have passion for what you're doing.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

如果事实、逻辑和科学过程都只是随意的“社会化构建出来的”说辞，那么我们能够得到的就只是某种共识--具体而言，也就是同伴群体中的共识，那种青春期的人们或者知识界很多人当中更愿意信奉的共识。

文学让我们能够旅行到其他世界、其他生活、其他现实。