I’m interested in the gaps between official history and personal memory.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

小说的最终考验是你是否如此关心这些人以至于你想知道他们接下来会发生什么。

"Children's literature is the foundation for a lifetime of reading."

The computer is a fantastic tool if you know how to use it.

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.