I saw a girl complaining that the pain of not being seen was unbearable... Now I have perfect understanding. I have already experienced the worst. After this, there is no worse possible thing.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.

Over time, passion wanes, differences don't.

We all hate moral ambiguity in some sense, and yet it is also absolutely necessary. In writing a story, it is the place where I begin.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.

It is because I had so much joy that I came to have so much hate.