The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. )

我们必须面对现实，即使现实是残酷的。

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.