最好的报复就是巨大的成功。

No arts； no letters； no society； and which is worst of all， continual fear and danger of violent death； and the life of man， solitary， poor， nasty， brutish， and short.

一个值得追求的年度目标：充分学习一个领域，以至于你无法相信一年前有多么无知。

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

The artist must be a child of the void.

Literature is the voice of the marginalized.