To write is to bear witness to the world and to oneself.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The only way to survive in this world is to numb yourself to its horrors.

社会主义不是一个可以由政府或政党建立的现成制度。它是工人阶级自身的产物。

Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe； to know what he ought to desire； and to know what he ought to do.

I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.