We are all broken, that's how the light gets in.

I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

没有什么比一个人的想法更危险的了。

The idea that immigrants take jobs away from natives is largely a myth.

金钱和鲜血不能混在一起，就像两根老二没有婊子。