We are to remember that we are not to take anything with us out of this world, and that it is how we have conducted ourselves here that will matter in the end.

I think that's the single most important thing about writing: it's about making the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

我写小说，人们说那是自传；我写自传，人们说那是小说。既然我这么笨，他们这么聪明，那就让他们决定是什么或不是什么吧。

很多人认为，如果有更多的程序和更多的合规性--检查和双重检查等等--就能创造一个更好的世界。我们只是试图在一个无缝的信任网络中运作，并谨慎对待我们所信任的人。