I don't believe in poverty. I believe in hard work.

"The act of writing is an act of courage, a confrontation with the self."

民主就是指人民用人民的大头棒打击人民。

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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.

Architecture is a social art.