The great virtue of the novel is that it makes you see, it makes you feel, it makes you know.

你写作不是因为你想说什么，而是因为你有话要说。

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I’m positive that in 100 years much of what I take to be true today will be proved to be wrong， maybe even embarrassingly wrong， and I try really hard to identify what it is that I am wrong about today.

Love is the most powerful inspiration.

Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

The harder you work for something, the greater you’ll feel when you achieve it.