人生在世，不是为了满足别人的期望而活。

The true poem is written not with ink but with blood.

Sustainability is not a choice, it is a responsibility.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

你唯一必须知道的就是图书馆的位置。

——2004年在南京航空学院上的演讲

我不为评论家做音乐，我为需要它的人而作。

你妻子喘不过气是因为我。

真正的进步发生在我们停止为过去优化，开始为未来建设之时。

To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us, the ones that never heal and that define who we are.