The novel is the great modern epic because it can contain everything: poetry, history, philosophy, politics.

The act of writing is an act of resistance against forgetting.

The true cost of leather isn't on the price tag—it's measured in water saved, ecosystems preserved, and workers treated fairly.

我坚信一切都有原因。

The writer must be a perpetual dissident, a professional heretic.

过去是一个异国他乡；那里的人们做事方式不同。