I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.
我希望读者能感受到一些令人惊讶的东西。不是“发生了什么”，而是所有事情发生的方式。这些长篇短篇小说对我来说是最好的。
The success of a society depends on its ability to balance the demands of individual freedom with the need for social cohesion.
"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all."
心理学家必须避免一切目的论的解释。
力量不是来自你能做什么，而是来自克服你曾经认为自己无法做到的事情。