真正的纽约人暗中相信，生活在其他地方的人在某种意义上一定是在开玩笑。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

"Un libro es una conversación entre el autor y el lector, un diálogo que trasciende el tiempo y el espacio."