As to the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, or what they are like.

"We are all fleeing from something, and the things we flee from are often the things we most desire."

我相信创造的激情。没有激情，你一无所有。

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.

在风格问题上，随波逐流；在原则问题上，坚如磐石。