我不是为读者写作；我是为自己写作。

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

No pain, no gain. That's my life motto.

I believe that any human life is worthy of being narrated, that it even deserves literature's illumination.

儿童文学是一生阅读的基础。

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

有的时候，一支亲切的乐曲，一处幽静地方的潺潺水声，一朵花的芳香，甚而只是说出一个熟悉的字眼，会突然唤起一些模糊的记忆，令人想起一些今生不曾出现过的场景，它们会像微风一样飘散，仿佛刹那间唤醒了对某种久已别离的、比较快乐的往事，而这种回忆单靠冥思苦想是怎么也想不起来的。