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.

成功不是幸福的关键。幸福是成功的关键。如果你热爱你所做的事，你就会成功。

"In literature, there are no borders, no limits."

"Geschichte wird von den Siegern geschrieben, aber die Erinnerung gehört den Menschen."

真相是想象力的产物。

The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all orthodoxies.

艺术家必须先创造火花才能生火，在艺术诞生之前，艺术家必须准备好被自己创造的火所吞噬。