The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and they who have so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but their own dispositions will waste their lives in fruitless efforts.

The role of the artist is to question, to challenge, and to reflect the complexities of our world.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

当心忍耐者的暴怒。