People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them. We, their hearts, become fearful just thinking of loved ones who go away forever, or of moments that could have been good but weren't, or of treasures that might have been found but were forever hidden in the sands.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

What I think I've been talking about really is success and failure. And one of the interesting things about success is that we think we know what it means. If I said that there's somebody behind the screen who's very successful, certain ideas would immediately come to mind. You'd think that person might have made a lot of money, achieved renown in some field. My own theory of success -- I'm somebody who's very interested in success, I really want to be successful, always thinking, how can I be more successful? But as I get older, I'm also very nuanced about what that word "success" might mean.

A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

"The unspeakable is the playwright’s territory."

煤炭的未来不仅仅是开采，而是我们如何负责任地将其融入不断变化的能源格局。