小说的终极目标是创造一个比现实本身更真实的世界。

A word after a word after a word is power.

夜很黑，我远离家乡。

A story is not like a road to follow...it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

我不断看到有些人在生活中越过越好，他们不是最聪明的，甚至不是最勤奋的，但他们是学习机器。他们每天夜里睡觉时都比那天早晨聪明一点点。