Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex.

The consequences of this problem make themselves felt in bookshops. When you go to a large bookshop and look at the self-help sections, as I sometimes do -- if you analyze self-help book sproduced in the world today, there are basically two kinds. The first kind tells you, "You can do it! You can make it! Anything's possible!" The other kind tells you how to cope with what we politely call "low self-esteem," or impolitely call, "feeling very bad about yourself."

"A novel is a mirror held up to the world."

Writing is a form of freedom.

建筑应该像树木从大地生长一样从其场地生长出来。

我来这里不是为了完美，而是为了真实。