I don’t play for the records; I play because I love the game.

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

我不是那种会让对奉献的热爱减少的人。

If you can imagine a society in which the computer- robot is the only menial, you can imagine anything.

重要的不是你拥有多少，而是你能给予多少。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

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.

If you are ever in trouble, don’t try to be brave, just run away.