挡在一个人和他想要的生活之间的唯一东西是尝试的意愿和相信可能的信念。

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There's nothing sadder than a monument.

诗歌是一种游戏，但一种严肃的游戏。

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I’m not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.

小说是人类处境的伟大艺术形式。