I'm not perfect, but I'm always me.

Profit without purpose is chemistry without catalysts - possible, but painfully slow and inefficient.

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

"The writer is a man who is in love with words, who is obsessed with words, who is possessed by words."

我们从不把成功视为理所当然。