如果你想赢得诺贝尔奖，就不应该想着赢得诺贝尔奖。

"Art is not about what you see, but what you make others see."

The task of the writer is to confront the chaos of existence and to find some kind of order within it.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

如果一件事情对你很重要，即使成功的概率很小，你也应该去做。