"Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better."

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

在救生艇上的生活并不算真正的生活。这就像国际象棋中的残局，棋子寥寥无几。环境再简单不过了，但赌注却再高不过了。

犯罪是美国梦的黑色版本。

语言是我们居住的房子，而诗歌是窗户。

Sustainability isn’t a buzzword—it’s a commitment to doing better every day.

我不是歌手，我是讲故事的人。

The more determinedly I exist, as myself, within the conditions of the time, the more clearly I shall hear the language of the past, the nearer I shall feel the breath of the centuries.