The only way to achieve greatness is to love what you do.

The most important victories are the ones that come after the toughest defeats.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

The best reader is the writer who reads his own work.

Innovation is the only way to break through resource constraints.

我的雄心不仅是走得比前人更远，还要到达人类可能到达的最远处。

追求任何职业或使命的代价是对其丑陋面的深入了解。