The writer’s job is to write with rigor, with honesty, to the very end of his strength.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

"When you follow your heart or your gut, when you really follow the things that feel right to you, you can never lose."

Feelings are guides to action.

写作是一种爱的行为，一种接近他人、理解他人的方式。