你写作不是因为你想说什么，而是因为你有话要说。

I don’t believe in regrets. I believe in lessons learned.

人性的弱点总是充满贪婪、恐惧或者是愚蠢，这是完全可以预测的，但是我们无法预测这种人性弱点的发生顺序。

小说是一面镜子，不仅反映现实，还映照其中隐藏的裂痕。

And that's a lot of the reason why we care so much about our careers and indeed start caring so much about material goods. You know, we're often told that we live in very materialistic times, that we're all greedy people. I don't think we are particularly materialistic. I think we live in a society which has simply pegged certain emotional rewards to the acquisition of material goods. It's not the material goods we want;

忙着生，或忙着死，这真有道理。

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

经济发展的艺术不在于看现在，而在于预见未来。