And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.

预测未来的最好方法就是去创造它。

I don't know if I have a philosophy. I just try to write the best book I can.

强求不得，顺其自然。

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Courage is the primary quality of justice.

If you are ready to give up everything else and study the whole history and background of the market and all the principal companies whose stocks are on the board as carefully as a medical student studies anatomy—if you can do all that and in addition you have the cool nerves of a gambler, the sixth sense of a clairvoyant and the courage of a lion, you have a ghost of a chance.