There’s a kind of beauty in the ordinary, if you take the time to see it.

To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it.

I'm not perfect, I don't claim to be. But I'm trying.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

要成为一名作家，必须有一定的傲慢，相信自己的声音值得被听到。

释义：独具慧眼的人看山崖，能发现未经琢磨的玉石；靠近河川，便能知道水里有珍珠。比喻人应善于观察和学习，方能洞察事物本质。