Even if we could turn back, we'd probably never end up where we started.

For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and find a passage to get into the second basement. What I want to do is go down there, but still stay sane.

Rousseau defined civilizations as when people build fences.

I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our job is to give new meanings and special overtones to absolutely ordinary words.” I find the thought reassuring. It means that vast, unknown stretches still lie before us, fertile territories just waiting for us to cultivate them.

I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"

She was hearing everything that went on in his heart, like a person who can trace a map with his fingertip and conjure up vivid, living scenery.

Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt when it's time for them to be hurt.