林百克法官与孙逸仙谈话(Judge Linebarger，Conversation with Sun Yet-sen)

当你年轻的时候，至少花6个月到1年的时间，尽可能地过贫穷的生活，尽可能少地拥有东西，在一个小房间或帐篷里只吃豆子和米饭，以体验你 “最糟糕”的生活方式可能是什么。这样一来，当你将来要冒什么风险时，你就不会害怕最坏的情况了。

"A writer’s voice is found in the silence between the words."

I know that self-promotion happens a lot and it is not a bad thing. But I do not regard it as something positive.

The artist must be a witness to the sacred.

What literature needs most to tell and investigate today are humanity's basic fears: the fear of being left outside, and the fear of counting for nothing, and the feelings of worthlessness that come with such fears.