小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一个建构的物体，一种必须尽可能完美的艺术技巧。
A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.
如果我不演戏，我不知道我会做什么。我想我会发疯的。
海天之宽阔任鱼鸟飞跃，不是大丈夫不会有此度量；大丈夫要有在千尺高山振衣，在万里长流洗足般的气节；大丈夫的内蕴要如珠玉藏于山泽般，大丈夫的胸襟要有如月明风清般光洁温煦。
我是个控制狂。我承认
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
The greatest investment risk is not the volatility of prices, but whether you will suffer a permanent loss of capital.
We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark.
I was a truck driver in LA, going to City College, and I tried to sign up for a class in ceramics, but it was full. So I signed up for architecture. It was an accident.
The study of mathematics is the indispensable basis for all intellectual and spiritual progress.
每本书都应该是作者和读者之间的对话。