最好的故事是反映生活复杂性的故事。

Every building is a kind of manifesto, a statement about how we should live.

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.

对注意力的研究为了解大脑如何选择、整合和处理信息提供了一个窗口。

社会联系是幸福感最强的预测因素之一。

阅读就是抵抗；写作就是反叛。