I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

我们都是拼凑而成的，组成如此无定形和多样，以至于每一部分，每一刻，都在玩自己的游戏。

天才等于百分之一的灵感，加百分之九十九的汗水。

世界上最可靠的就是你自己。

真相往往比小说更离奇，但小说帮助我们理解真相。

"The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism."

森林的真正价值不能仅用板英尺来衡量。