Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

唯有理解，才能关心；唯有关心，才能帮助；唯有帮助，一切才能得救。

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

"Escribir es un acto de valentía, especialmente para las mujeres en un mundo que todavía nos quiere calladas."

The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.