To live is to embrace the contradictions of life.

I'm not going to compare myself to anybody. I'm going to do the best I can do. I'm going to work hard every day to be the best that I can be.

I do not know what I may appear to the world， but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore， and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary， whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

艺术作品是与无限的对话。

A writer is selected by his subject—his subject being the consciousness of his own era.

The past is a different country, they do things differently there.