"The characters in my books are often people who are struggling to find their place in the world."

我想发现自己，我出生的原因，以及生命的意义。

那些无法掌控主导他们生活的故事的人，无法重述、重新思考、解构、嘲笑并随着变化而改变它的人，真正是无力的，因为他们无法思考新的思想。

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

一个人的性格就是他的命运。

The real moral test of a society is how it treats those who are at the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are in the shadow of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.