I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year...It's very character-building.

Love is the soul of music.

Escribir es una forma de resistencia, de mantener viva la memoria y la identidad de un pueblo.

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

我越努力工作，就越活得精彩。

The bond market is the Rodney Dangerfield of investments—it gets no respect.

小说是一面反映人性复杂性的镜子。