我不喜欢被指挥,我喜欢自己做决定。
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
——1997年7月30日在拉斯维加斯美国全国州长协会大会上发言