作家的真正力量在于他们能够让读者通过他们的眼睛看世界。
Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings always darker， emptier， simpler.
People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don't find myself saying, "Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner." I don't try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.
The greatest predictor of a novel's quality is the novelist's willingness to confront the unlovely truth about himself or herself.