In the end, we are all just stories, and it is up to us to make our stories worth telling.

Writing fiction is like remembering things that never happened.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it, an apostle is unlikely to look out.

All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.

一本书是与死者的对话。