The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

写作是一种希望的行为，是对文字改变世界力量的信念。

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."