我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
我在土地上长大，我知道饥饿是什么。
Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
文学是发现普通人身上非凡之处的艺术，用普通的语言表达非凡的东西。
Stories are the only way we have to make sense of the chaos around us.
Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.
