Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
孤寂能产生独创精神,酝酿出一种敢作敢为、令人震惊的美丽的创作,也就是诗。但孤寂也会促成相反的东西,会养成人们不近人情、荒唐怪癖的性格,也会使人萌生非法之念。
Writing is like sex. First you do it for love, then you do it for your friends, and then you do it for money.