"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

I'm not a day, I'm a night.

Every story is a kind of ghost, haunting the present.

文学的美在于它能够使不可见的东西变得可见，为无声者发声，并照亮人类灵魂最黑暗的角落。

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

释义：每个人应该先处理好自己的事情，不要去过多干涉别人的事情。