I'd rather be a failed writer than a successful banker.

最大的荣耀不在于永不跌倒，而在于每次跌倒后都能站起来。

I'm not here to be liked, I'm here to be remembered.

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.