The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

作家的职责是说出真相，即使真相令人不安。

处理一个不自由的世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.