当天赋不努力时，勤奋会击败天赋。

"Ein Buch ist wie ein Garten, den man in der Tasche trägt."

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

The food industry has a responsibility to future generations—what we do today shapes their tomorrow.

The writer must be a traitor to all orthodoxies.

"The characters in my books are often people who are struggling to find their place in the world."