创新不仅仅是关于新想法，而是以创造真正价值的方式去执行它们。

Fiction is not an escape from reality but a deeper immersion into it.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

城市的穷人就像树的根；看不见，但对它的生命至关重要。

We are all searching for something, whether we admit it or not, and that search defines us.

死者不会停留在他们被埋葬的地方。

文学是人类的记忆，没有记忆就没有身份。

我将无法再写任何东西。我没有什么可说的了。