"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
孩子的基本工作是自私——追求自己的需求和欲望——而父母的基本工作是无私。
The truth is, I am not a very good person. But I am trying to be better.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.