我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.
The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.
I write to understand what has happened to me, to transform my shame into language.
A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.
生命可以被目标拉动，正如它被驱动力推动一样。
每个词都是通向自由的一步。
最好的故事是与读者共鸣的故事。