The novel is the art of making the impossible believable.

我工作中最有价值的部分是看到我们的药物改变人们的生活。

生死有命，没有人能要求多活一秒钟。

I write to make sense of the world around me.

你必须愿意犯错；重要的是不要一遍又一遍地犯同样的错误。

It is silly not to hope, he thought.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.