The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

"The best novels are those that make you feel less alone in the world."

毕竟，只有在退潮的时候，才能发现谁在裸泳。

To know that one does not write for the other, to know that these things I am going to write will never make me loved by the one I love.

"To be a novelist is to be interested in what other people aren't interested in."

天下的老百姓如果都向上统一于天子，而不向上统一于天的意志，那么灾祸就还没有完全离去。