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.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
审判自己比审判别人要难得多啊！你要是能审判好自己，你就是一个真正有才智的人。
I'm not going to let anyone bring me down.