一个有创造力的人是由成就的欲望驱动的，而不是由击败他人的欲望驱动的。
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
Models are not crystal balls, but they are the best tools we have to understand the future.
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what others want us to be.
品格比恢复更容易保持。
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
The writer’s life is a life of obsession.