小说是一面反映人类存在复杂性的镜子。

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.

I think that the best way to predict the future is to create it.