The best novels are those that manage to create autonomous worlds, worlds that function according to their own laws and logic.

每一次失败都是一堂课，让你更接近成功。

行动对生命是很重要的，教育不能策划出让生命缓和下来或压抑它的方法。

If you're going to bake, do it properly. Don't cut corners.

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

作家的生活是一种怀疑的生活。