Art is a way of knowing the world.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

我一直相信，如果你陷入困境，也许事情进展不顺利，你会变得更强大。生活中的一切都是这样。