未来不是现在提供的不同路径中选择的结果，而是一个被创造的地方——首先在思想和意志中创造，然后在行动中创造。

最激进的艺术往往是最简单的。

首先，你应该写作来取悦自己。你根本不应该在乎其他任何人。

Writing about crime is really writing about society's fractures and failings.

"Censorship creates better poets and more cunning novelists - we learn to whisper in colors and shout in metaphors."

不管到了哪里，我都一直留恋那令人愉快的悠闲生活，对唾手可得的富贵荣华毫无兴趣，甚至厌恶。

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves.