A building must be rooted in the ground but open to the sky.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want others to do the talking after one has listened.
作家必须固执，必须有牺牲的使命，必须接受文学是一个非常残酷的情人。