写作是直面内心的黑暗。

"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

研究中国古典文学不仅是一种学术追求，更是理解中国文化灵魂的一种方式。

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

人类一向有这个独特之处：它保留了两套法则——一套私下的，一套真正的；一套公开的，一套矫揉造作的。

I don't follow the rules. I make them.

"To be a writer is to sit down at one's desk in the chill portion of every day, and to write; not waiting for the little jet of the blue flame of genius to start from the breastbone."

"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."

最好的电影是那些在深层次上与观众产生共鸣的电影。