逃避问题的最好方法是解决它。

大海一旦施展它的魔力，就会永远将人困在其奇迹的网中。

Writing is not about revealing the truth, but about creating a space where the truth can be discovered.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.