"A writer is essentially a person who writes not because he has to, but because he cannot not write."

挑战在于将平凡变得非凡。

Sorrow is hushed into peace in my heart like the evening among the silent trees。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

I've always been attracted to the lyric poem because of what it omits.

我总是认为，如果我尽力了，结果自然会随之而来。

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied； better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

程序最重要的属性是它是否实现了用户的意图。