The only thing that matters is how you feel about yourself.

The biographer's challenge is to be both a detective and a poet.

只要不放弃，梦想终会实现。

书籍是最安静、最恒久的朋友；它们是最易接近、最睿智的顾问，也是最耐心的老师。

我唯一害怕的是平庸。

The question of truth and falsehood is always present, but it is not always answerable.

The writer must be a defender of the marginal, the forgotten, the defeated.