当我听到文化这个词时，我伸手去拿支票簿。
When I hear the word culture, I reach for my checkbook.
Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of seeing it and understanding it.
作家是人类灵魂的工程师。
艺术家必须像上帝在造物中一样存在于他的作品中——无形而全能。
True literature always disturbs the established order.
The only way to escape suffering is to embrace it.