I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

恐惧是对我们所害怕事物的预知。它是一种奇妙的能力，我们对它了解得越多，就越不会害怕。

I write to make sense of the world around me.

物种之间的边界比我们想象的更具渗透性。

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.