Everyone has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean. Everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they’ve all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe.

Literature is the most beautiful form of disobedience.

我就在这，哪儿也不去，不管受了什么伤 — 除非我完全衰弱 — 我还是会一直是像以前一样的球员。我会看着办，我会做出一些调整、一些改变，但我还是来了。

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

A writer must be willing to risk everything for the truth.

"A good novel should unsettle you, make you question what you thought you knew."