Language is the writer's only tool, and yet it's never enough.

I’m not a pessimist. I’m an optimist trained in pessimism.

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."

电影的美在于它能捕捉到那些转瞬即逝的瞬间。

 One foul sentence does more hurt than many foul examples. For these do but corrupt the stream；the other corrupt the fountain.