The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Writing is rewriting—the magic happens in the edits.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.

最好的想法往往来自意想不到的地方。

We recognized early on that smart people do very dumb things, and we wanted to know why and who, so that we could avoid them.

The novel is the most complete expression of human freedom.

在冬天的深处，我发现我内心有一个不可战胜的夏天。

逝者是我们寻求真理的沉默伙伴。