写作是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得它不重要，你就不会费心去做。

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of not trying.

The first fruit of this imagination - and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it - is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

You can't change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails.

作家的生活是一种孤独的生活。

译文：发出叱咤风云的气势，精神四处飞扬。

地球只是宇宙中的一个波点。