我喜欢去工作。这不是一件苦差事，而是一种乐趣。

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the process of modernization.