一个好故事就像一面镜子，映照出我们灵魂的隐秘角落。

"I don't want to be put in a box."

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 turn to the novel.

对于那些必须承受其后果的人来说，战争还没有结束。

The dead are more faithful than the living. They do not change.