将欲败之,必姑辅之;将欲取之,必姑与之。
译文:想要打败它,一定要暂且帮助它。想要取得利益,必然要先给予一些利益。
I've always been drawn to characters who are complex and flawed, because that's what makes them human.
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
我不害怕与众不同。我拥抱它。
I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.