I was a truck driver in LA, going to City College, and I tried to sign up for a class in ceramics, but it was full. So I signed up for architecture. It was an accident.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

每部小说都是进入人类心灵未知领域的旅程。

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

You have to grind when no one else is grinding so you can shine when no one else is shining.