To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The best structures are those that disappear into their function.

世界上充满了显而易见的事物，却没有人注意到它们。

死亡很可能是唯一的、最好的生命创造。它是生命的促变者。它送走老一代，给新一代开出道路。

真正的挑战不仅仅是收集数据，而是理解这些数据的意义。

作家本质上是一个不是因为必须写作，而是因为不能不写作的人。