I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

The whole is different from the sum of its parts.

The biggest victories are the ones that are the hardest to achieve.

写作的行为需要不断地潜入过去的阴影中，在那里时间像幽灵一样徘徊。

If we don’t do something now, the world our children inherit will be much poorer than the one we were given.

如果你不前进，就是在落后。