站在一旁与完全参与之间的张力；这就是造就作家的原因。
The tension between standing apart and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.
"Attention is the selective mechanism of consciousness."
写作对我来说就像呼吸。我必须写作才能活下去。
小说是讲述真相的谎言，一种比现实本身更真实的谎言。
The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
诗人通过长期、巨大而有意识的感官错乱使自己成为先知。
我不是说唱歌手，我是一个计数的传奇。
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.