The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.
写作的艺术就是发现你所相信的艺术。
世界充满了来来往往的迹象和奇迹,如果你幸运的话,你可能会抓住其中一个的尾巴。
永远不要把动作和行动混为一谈。
Religion is the price we pay for having a large brain.
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.
"我写作是为了摧毁谎言,但最终总是创造了它。"
车间里应该同等弥漫着木屑和梦想的气息。