When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

I don't want to be better than anyone else, I just want to be better than myself.

小说是一面镜子，不仅反映世界，还反映作家的灵魂。

The stories I’m writing now are more and more about memory, about the past, and about how we reconstruct the past.

阿拉曼战役不是战争的结束，甚至不是战争开始时期的结束，而可能是战争结束时期的开始。

重要的不是你打得有多重，而是你能承受多大的打击并继续前进。

中国哲学的精髓在于其对宇宙和人生的动态和整体观。