"The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."

Never underestimate the power of a team that believes in a shared vision.

Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter 'repented,' changed his mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again.

Don't search for defining moments because they will never come. The moment that define you have already happened, and they will already happen again.

Literature is a form of permanent insurrection.

永远不要把动作和行动混为一谈。

We are all patchworks of our ancestors.