"In my novels, I try to delve into the darkest corners of the human psyche."

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

可持续发展的关键在于通过教育和创新不断改善人力资本。

Justice is not always served in the way we expect, but it is always served in some form.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

The goal of mathematics is to understand the structures that underlie the phenomena we observe.

In the end, we are all just stories, told and retold, until they become myths.

可持续发展不仅仅是保护树木，更是确保人类与自然都能繁荣的未来。