Escribir es una forma de resistencia contra el olvido.
你必须愿意冒险才能实现伟大的事情。
"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."
有了图书馆，你是自由的，不受暂时的政治气候的限制。它是最民主的机构，因为没有人——绝对没有人——可以告诉你该读什么，什么时候读，怎么读。
I write to make sense of the world, to give it a shape, a form.
With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
More matter with less art.
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。
小说中的人物比他的创造者拥有更多自由——这就是支撑我写作的讽刺。