We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.

这就是如此奇怪的事情，人们不会相信真正真实的东西，就在他们眼前的东西。

角色是追逐我的幽灵，直到我在纸上赋予它们声音。

对我来说，一个温暖想法的光芒比金钱更有价值。

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

写作就是呼吸，就是生活，就是超越时间的限制而存在。

伟大不是一种技能，而是一种态度。

处理一个不自由的世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。