我很早就决定无条件地接受生活；我从未期望生活为我做任何特别的事情，然而我似乎完成了比我曾经希望的更多的事情。大多数时候，这些事情都是在我没有追求的情况下发生的。
I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.
"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."
写作是一种不被中断的说话方式。
The tongue is like a sharp knife, killing without drawing blood. Words from a skilled person can cause greater harm than a warrior’s weapon.