通过观察你的敌人恐吓你的手段，你可以发现他们最害怕什么。

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

一个人真正需要的财富就那么一点点，其余的都是用来炫耀的。

There is no such thing as an empty space or an empty time. There is always something to see, something to hear.