Fiction allows us to live multiple lives, to see through eyes not our own.

In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

"I work very slowly. It's a process of building up layers and adjusting until it feels right."

一本书是一面镜子：如果傻瓜往里看，智者也无法从中看出什么。