I'm not a messiah, but I'm not just a singer. I'm a message.

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know."

古代的学者，为自己才学不高而担忧，就发奋学习，迎头赶上；现在的文士，为自己才学不高而羞愧，就隐满短处，避忌批评。

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.

In the act of writing, we confront our deepest fears and desires.

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.