我们每天支配的时间是有弹性的;我们感受到的激情会扩展它,我们激发的激情会收缩它;而习惯会填补剩下的部分。
The real is no longer real.
作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的,他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
Art is the closest thing we have to magic.