我希望我的书能帮助孩子们以不同的方式看待世界，注意到那些微小的细节和隐藏的意义。

地球上唯一伟大的是人，人身上唯一伟大的是心灵。

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

I want the reader to feel something is astonishing. Not the 'what happens,' but the way everything happens. These long short story fictions do this best, for me.