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.

生活不在于你呼吸了多少次，而在于那些让你屏住呼吸的时刻。

The human mind is a set of information-processing machines that were designed by natural selection to solve adaptive problems faced by our hunter-gatherer ancestors.

小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。但小说是生命的一本明亮的书。

我们越意识到面对宇宙力量时的渺小和无能，人类的成就就越令人惊叹。