In both arenas, because the body is predominant and vulnerable, the mind becomes an instrument of silent, uninvolved assessment.

写作就是抵抗历史的抹去。

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

In agriculture, data is important, but intuition—forged by experience—is irreplaceable.

读报或者看电视新闻时，总是难免碰上一个又一个的为社会问题的解决提供了新的解决方案的人。

我写作是为了理解这个世界。

The dialectical unity of Love and Strife is the eternal driving force in the cosmos.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

我专注于成功需要做的事。

爱是世间无限的变幻；谎言、仇恨，甚至谋杀，都交织其中。