To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy， in our age， can do for those who study it.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

一部好小说应该像一颗炸弹，在读者脑海中爆炸并留下持久的影响。

A managed forest is like a symphony—every tree plays its part at the right time.