Life is too short to live it twice, but literature gives us the chance to live thousands of times.
写作不仅仅是一种职业；它是一种生活方式，对真理和美的承诺。
我对人类的状况感兴趣，对活着的意义感兴趣，对存在的本质感兴趣。
我不相信完美。我认为那是一个非常危险的想法。那是一个非常难以实现的想法。
知识最大的敌人不是无知，而是知识的幻觉。
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
The poor are not lazy; they are just caught in a system that makes it very hard for them to escape poverty.
I'm not a big fan of the word 'celebrity'. I think it's a very strange concept.