The writer must be a perpetual outsider, a critic of all power.
作家必须是一个永远的外来者,一个所有权力的批评者。
The bike is my instrument of change. It's my tool to make a difference.
If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
你的工作将占据你生活的一大部分,唯一能真正满足的方法就是做你认为伟大的工作。
当今文学最需要讲述和探究的是人类的基本恐惧:被排斥在外的恐惧,无足轻重的恐惧,以及随之而来的无价值感。
A writer is a person who is obsessed with language, with words, with the power of words to create worlds.
I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.
The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.