小说就像蜘蛛网，也许连接得极其轻微，但四个角仍然连接着生活。
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.
All men are immortal， but those who are not educated are immortal in a lower and less enviable sense.
When you’re in a tough spot, remember why you started.
The writer must be a defender of the individual against the collective.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
The task of the writer is to confront the chaos of existence and to find some kind of order within it.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house