作家的生活是由句子构成的生活。
【原文】冉求曰：“非不悦子之道，力不足也。”子曰：“力不足者，中道而废，今汝划。”【译文】冉求说：“我不是不喜欢您的学说，而是我的能力不足。”孔子说：“如果是能力不足的话，是走到中途才废弃而停止，但现在你还没开始，就给自己划了一条截止的界限而停止前进了。”
没有刻苦钻研的精神，就不能明辨事情的道理；没有专心致志的工作，就不会取得显赫的成绩。
Quality should never be compromised for quantity.
我不想成为流行明星，我想成为传奇。
我一直生活在想象中，现实让我感到无聊。
积极强化的实施方式比强化的数量更重要。
Art is not an escape from reality, but a deeper engagement with it.
People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.