流放这件事想起来奇怪地引人入胜，但经历起来却很可怕。

作家的任务在于能够从某种理念中创造出作品。

Grain farming is both an art and a science—requiring intuition as much as data.

"A novel is never finished; it is only abandoned."

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Science is the poetry of reality.

过去从未消亡，它甚至从未过去。