每一部小说都是举向社会的一面镜子，映照出它的美与缺陷。

建筑不是关于形式，而是关于空间和光。

作家必须有勇气说出别人不敢说的话。

She's simply too strange. We can't relate to her, she speaks in a funny way, she comes from an odd place. So we can't relate to her, and when you can't relate to somebody, you don't envy them. The closer two people are -- in age, in background, in the process of identification -- the more there's a danger of envy, which is incidentally why none of you should ever go to a school reunion, because there is no stronger reference point than people one was at school with.

The only way to truly understand someone is to listen to them without judgment.

I think it's really important to be able to laugh at yourself and not take yourself too seriously.

"The act of reading is an act of empathy. You are stepping into someone else's shoes, seeing the world through their eyes."

我不是为眼睛做音乐，我是为耳朵做音乐。

译文：人的一生能有多少个今天呢，今天不去做事实在是可惜了。赏析：今日事今日毕，我们要活在当下，每天都要做些有意义的事情。明天有明天的事情，万事都要等到明天去做，就会蹉跎光阴。