The writer's secret is not inspiration—for it is never clear where it comes from—but stubbornness, endurance.
作家的秘密不是灵感——因为灵感从何而来永远是个谜——而是固执和耐力。
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
Efficiency and ethics must go hand in hand. Cutting corners today will cost us dearly tomorrow.
The rat in the maze is not just learning a series of turns, but is building up a cognitive map of the whole situation.