"A good book should leave you... slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it."

I love the feeling of hitting a ball harder than I’ve ever hit before.

我早已喜爱艺术并进行艺术创作，但我选择不在艺术学校进修，因为我认为我需要做些其他的事，而从艺难以谋生，但我最后兼得之。我只是稍稍认为海洋生物学是我的工作，艺术是我用以自我表现的中介。

The problem of the modern age is the problem of the individual's self-preservation in the face of the overwhelming power of the social mechanism.

"The only way out is through."

东西方文化的融合不仅是可能的，而且对人类进步是必要的。

小说是人类自由最完整、最深刻的表达。