我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。
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 turn to the novel.
我的艺术源于只有我能看到的幻觉。我将困扰我的幻觉和强迫性图像转化为雕塑和绘画。
The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year...It's very character-building.
深刻沉着、忠厚笃信，是第一等的禀赋；直率开朗、豪迈雄健，是第二等的禀赋；明智聪慧、能言善辩，是第三等的禀赋。