The desire to write grows with writing.

I am not interested in the unique, but in the banal.

对于音乐家而言，最必要的，最重要的，最主要的，最本质的事情是：知道他想要什么，他能做什么，以及他应该做什么。

Failure is just another way to learn.

The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

在权威人士错误的问题上坚持正确是危险的。

定义就是限制。