I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

无限的耐心会带来立竿见影的效果。

我们关注的不是数字，而是产生数字的那些东西。

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.