艺术的价值不在于技巧，而在于真实。

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

A novelist must be a psychologist, but a psychologist of a special kind—one who understands the souls of men and women as if he had made them.

"Sustainability is not a cost, it's an investment in our collective future."

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but learning to start over.

"写作是一种自我发现的过程，每一次写作都是一次心灵的旅程。"

每本书都是通往新世界、新体验的门户。