对舒缓的事情，要急速解决，因为思想敏锐，往往获得成功；对急迫的事情，应沉稳处理，因为急躁忙乱，常常漏洞百出。

免疫系统就像一把双刃剑；它可以对抗癌症，但也需要被控制。

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

If you start out by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work toward getting it.