我不喜欢做简单的事，我喜欢接受挑战。
文学应该让安逸者不安，让不安者得慰。
世界上充满了故事，但最重要的是我们告诉自己的那些。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
译文：贪图小利终究会吃大亏，仗着自己聪明终究不会有大的成功。赏析：见小利则大事不成，机关算尽太聪明，反误了卿卿性命。虚名小利只会影响我们前行的视野，认为自己最聪明，就会忘乎所以，事情就难以成功。
我的艺术源于只有我能看到的幻觉。我将困扰我的幻觉和强迫性图像转化为雕塑和绘画。
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.