小说应该既是一面镜子，也是一扇窗户。
真相总是不便的。
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
The desert is not just a place; it's a metaphor for the vastness of human solitude.
To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
