"The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties."

I think it's merely the randomness of the winning and losing process that I want to stress, because the emphasis nowadays is so much on the justice of everything, and politicians always talk about justice. Now I'm a firm believer in justice, I just think that it's impossible. So we should do everything we can to pursue it, but we should always remember that whoever is facing us, whatever has happened in their lives, there will be a strong element of the haphazard. That's what I'm trying to leave room for; otherwise, it can get quite claustrophobic.

在物理学中，近似的艺术往往比追求精确解更重要。

每一座建筑都是一个原型，因为每一座建筑都是独一无二的。

"Writing is an act of resistance, a way to reclaim our narratives from the margins."

一个人能遭受的最痛苦的痛苦是洞察很多却无能为力。