人生苦短，不能不冒险。

在现实世界中，很多恶行并非源于恶意。

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.

当你为爱情而钓鱼时，要用你的心当作饵，而不是用你的脑筋。

"To write is to breathe, to live, to exist in a world of one's own creation."

The writer’s challenge is to find the universal in the particular.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.