那么为什么我要谈论失败的好处呢？因为失败意味着剥离掉那些不必要的东西。我因此不再伪装自己、远离自我，而重新开始把所有精力放在对我最重要的事情上。
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
小说不仅仅是一个故事；它是一面反映人类存在复杂性的镜子。
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
"Writing about the past is a way of making sense of the present and imagining a different future."
风景屏住呼吸，等待着什么发生，但什么也没有。
避免麻烦的最好方法就是远离它。
创新不仅仅是关于新想法，而是以精确和激情执行它们。