子曰：“德之不修，学之不讲，闻义不能徙，不善不能改，是吾忧也。”
【译文】 孔子说：“对品德不进行培养，对学问不进行钻研，听到好人好事不能跟着做，有了错误不能及时改正，这就是我所担忧的。”
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
I think that we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves.
The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
To write is to bear witness to the world's beauty and cruelty.
接受自己的不足只会让你成为赢家。
预测未来的最好方法就是创造未来。