No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
在这个世界上，能为别人减轻负担的人都是有用的。
The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.
作家不是在真空中造就的。作家是见证者。我们需要作家的原因是因为我们需要见证这个可怕的世纪。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
"I think people believe in heaven because they don’t like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don’t like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish."
