I've always been interested in art and making things, but I chose not to go to art school because I thought I needed to do something else. Art was a tough way to make a living. I've always done both. I just kind of figured that the marine biology would be a career and the art would be something I did for my own self-expression.

Wood has a memory. It remembers the forest. It remembers the tree.

作家本质上是一个不是因为必须写作，而是因为不能不写作的人。

Success? I don't know what that word means. I'm happy. But success, that goes back to what in somebody's eyes success means. For me, success is inner peace. That's a good day for me.

阅读的习惯是唯一没有掺杂任何杂质的享受；当所有其他乐趣消失时，它依然存在。