如果你想成为最好的，就必须做别人不愿意做的事。
If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.
The power of the image lies in its ability to evoke a world beyond itself.
小说是让不可见的东西变得可见的艺术。
I want the reader to feel something is astonishing—not the 'what happens' but the way everything happens.
政治被认为是第二古老的职业。我逐渐意识到它与第一职业（指卖淫）极为相似。
历史不仅仅是关于过去；它是关于理解现在和塑造未来。