我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家都想先写诗，发现自己做不到，然后尝试短篇小说，这是诗歌之后要求最高的形式。如果连这都失败了，他才会转向写小说。

Every piece of fruit tells a story—of the land, the hands that cultivated it, and the journey it took to reach the consumer.

史记

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I'm not going to keep on knocking that old door that doesn't open for me. I'm going to create my own door and walk through that.

最好的矿业公司不仅仅是遵守法规，他们还帮助制定法规。

激情的持续时间与女人最初的抗拒成正比。

我们都有足够的力量去承担他人的不幸。

In the end, we are all just trying to find a place where we belong.

Art has the power to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.

写作是一种希望的行为，相信有人会倾听。

孤独是自由的代价。