写作是与过去的恶魔搏斗。

The more specific you are, the more universal you become.

完成某事的最好方法就是开始。

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.

解释：对会带来灾祸的事物不喜欢，就不会招致灾祸。

世界的美有两面，一面是欢笑，一面是痛苦，将心割裂。