"Albert Camus was born in Algeria, but except for The Outsider and a few other early works set in Algeria, little of his writing has anything to do with his place of birth." Li first came to Taiwan at age 19. Although he has spent six of the 34 years since then in the United States, he has been back to Malaysia only twice.
「卡謬在北非的阿爾及利亞長大，除了早期幾篇小說如《異鄉人》是以阿爾及利亞為背景，其他跟出生地有關的並不多」，他說，他十九歲來台灣，六年在美國，三十年間，只回馬來西亞兩次。