The best way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.

乌鸦般的交情，虽然看上去挺好，但实则不亲密；绳子结在一起，虽然看上去牢固，但能轻易解开。

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

The novel is the great art form of the individual voice.

If you’re not failing occasionally, you’re not pushing the boundaries enough.

Sometimes the hardest battles are fought within the silence of our own hearts.

If you hate yourself, you will hate others. If you cannot love yourself, you cannot love others.