I wanted nothing less than to be a fiction writer when I was a kid. If you had told me I would be an artist or novelist when I grew up, I would have laughed in your face.

  • -- Caleb Carr 卡勒伯·卡尔

当我还是个孩子的时候,我最想做的就是成为一名小说家。如果你告诉我长大后要当艺术家或小说家,我会当面笑话你。

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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.

所有的小说都是关于犯罪的。你很难找到没有犯罪元素的小说。我不认为自己是犯罪小说家,但我的书中也有犯罪。如果你想反映真实世界,这就是讲故事的本质。

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

我不想再经历更多的沧桑,我不想再这样尝试,再尝试。我只想出去。我受够了。我太累了。我二十岁了,已经很累了。

The bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets.

自行车当然应该永远是小说家和诗人的交通工具。

For us chess players the language of artist is something natural.

对我们这些棋手来说,艺术家的语言是很自然的。

I'm a performance artist first; I'm a recording artist second.

我首先是个行为艺术家;我是第二名录音艺术家。

I wouldn't mind at all coming back to earth after my death.

我一点也不介意死后回到人间。