一个人懒惰又奢侈，生活就会贫困；勤劳而节俭，生活就会富足。

You know what it’s like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don’t have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it’s important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.

I believe that the job of the novelist is to go out into the world and to bring back news of the human condition.