I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

成功的真正标准是让土地比我们发现时更好。

Writing is a way of making sense of the world.

挽救失败的事，就好像驾驭悬崖边的马，不能轻拍一鞭。对于即将成功的事，就好像拉船上沙滩，不能少停一桨。

我已经失去我的生命中不死的一部分，留下来的也就跟畜生没有分别了。

The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.