我不能也不愿生活在谨慎的世界里,至少作为作家不行。我向你保证,我宁愿如此——那样生活会更容易。但不幸的是,谨慎不适合小说家。
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
Reflection is the source of wisdom.
The role of the artist is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.