The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
有独创性的作家，除非死了，否则总是令人震惊、令人愤慨的；新奇的事物会扰乱和排斥。
"The best way to innovate is to take risks."
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all.
小说是生命的一本明亮的书。书不是生命。它们只是以太上的颤动。
艺术应该以其后果来衡量，而不是以其美来衡量。