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.

I was not born blind, I became blind at the age of 12, but I never felt like a victim.

I have a different understanding of what is important and what is not.

You have to be willing to get happy about nothing.

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

你可以花钱上学，但你买不来品位。