A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

你天生与众不同，注定不会被淹没在人群中。

美存在于观察者的适应机制中。

你看不见你自己，你所看见的只是你的影子。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

Money and success don't change people, they merely amplify what is already there.