A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

Personality can change more in your 20s than at any other time in life.

最重要的胜利是在最艰难的失败之后到来的。

Even a foolish person can still be right about most things. Most conventional wisdom is true.

I think the best way to learn is by doing.

I don't want to fall in love, I just want to fall asleep.