I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.

In every person, there is an abyss. Sometimes you look into it, and sometimes you don’t.

"You can't manage what you don't measure."

成功不是终点，失败也不是致命的：重要的是继续前进的勇气。

Art is about life and it can’t really be about anything else.

理性是冰冷的太阳，它给予光明却不给予温暖。

解释：要量力而行，实力达得到就进攻，达不到就撤退。

A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.