一个科学家的真正价值是由超越他的学生数量来衡量的。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

找出人们喜欢读什么样的书的唯一方法就是出版书籍，看看会发生什么。

To understand a culture, you must listen to its artists—they are the seismographs of societal change.