I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.

痛苦并不总能带来转变，有时它只是伤害。

Success is a function of persistence and doggedness and the willingness to work hard for twenty-two minutes to make sense of something that most people would give up on after thirty seconds.

最重要的事莫过于享受你的人生，活得开心，这是最重要的。

The most important thing in art is the human condition.