As far as carrying the torch for the years to come, I don’t know. I just want to be the best basketball player I can be.

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 take up novel writing.

Literature is a false representation of life that helps us to understand life better.

作家的职责是扰乱世界的睡眠。