文学是一种谎言，但它总是引导我们走向真相。

I believe in art as a form of research.

小说不仅是世界的镜子，更是塑造世界的锤子。

最好的报复就是巨大的成功。

自由民主在世界范围内的传播并非不可避免，但它是现代化进程中最可能的结果。

The only possible way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.