文学的力量在于它能够让我们通过不同的眼睛看世界。
Sir, where are you running? Are you doing this for world peace? Are you doing this for the homeless? Are you running for women's rights? The environment? They just couldn't believe that somebody would do all that running for no particular reason. Why are you doing this? I just felt like running. I just felt like running.
作家是一个总是试图推动语言的边界,探索语言的极限,看看语言能做什么的人。
写作是一种理解世界和我在其中位置的方式。
Freedom is not merely the opportunity to do as one pleases; neither is it merely the opportunity to choose between set alternatives. Freedom is, first of all, the chance to formulate the available choices, to argue over them - and then, the opportunity to choose.