我相信小说家的职责是走进世界，带回关于人类状况的消息。

没有中立的艺术。

未来属于那些相信自己梦想之美的人。

直觉不过是识别，仅此而已。

健康的一天胜过生活的千年。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.