作家本质上是一个不是因为必须写作，而是因为不能不写作的人。
"A writer is essentially a person who writes not because he has to, but because he cannot not write."
意见正确而不被采纳，意见错误而不被废止，有功的人得不到奖赏，有罪的人得不到惩治，这样能够治理好百姓国家的，从来没有过。
Writing is the only way I have to explain my own life to myself.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.