The only thing that matters is the intensity of the gaze.

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

写作是一种反抗，是对遗忘的反抗。

永远不要为了速度而牺牲质量。

"El arte de escribir es el arte de descubrir lo que crees."

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.