Art is not about escaping reality, but about understanding it more deeply.
艺术不是为了逃避现实,而是为了更深刻地理解它。
写作是与生活荒谬抗争的一种方式。
我时刻准备着学习,但是我不喜欢别人给我上课。
A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.
——〈在中国国民党本部特设驻粤办事处的演说〉,1921年3月6日
I don't believe in originality, I believe in recombination.