The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.

"To read is to travel without moving; to write is to move without traveling."

如果一个作家不能激起敌意，那他就已经死了。

诗人的任务是在短暂中发现永恒。

孔子说：“譬如堆山，还差一筐，没堆成就停了，功亏一篑是自己造成的；譬如填坑，只倒一筐，继续填下去，坚持不懈是自己决定的。”

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

The most important thing in filmmaking is to tell a good story.

The hardest challenges often lead to the greatest breakthroughs.