The poet is a man who manages to be, in his own lifetime, what all men would like to be after their death.

We are all mutants in the grand scheme of evolution.

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

我希望我的书能帮助孩子们以不同的方式看待世界，注意到那些微小的细节和隐藏的意义。