Common sense tells us that performance comes and goes, but costs go on forever.

"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."

I write to make sense of the chaos within me.

The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

"To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside."

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

写作的行为是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得这无关紧要，你就不会费心去做。