小说是一面沿着大路行走的镜子。
A novel is a mirror walking along a main road.
A prophet is not without honor except in his own country and in his own house
最孤寂难熬的生活，也比与那帮家伙交往要好，要知道那是些只知道背叛和仇恨的恶棍。
创造力的发动机是提出一个问题：“一定要这样吗？” 政治改革、科学发展、关系改善以及更好的书都是提出这个问题后出现的。《哲学的慰藉》
'Jeff, what does Day 2 look like?' 'Day 2 is stasis. Followed by irrelevance. Followed by excruciating, painful decline. Followed by death. And that is why it is always Day 1.' To be sure, this kind of decline would happen in extreme slow motion. An established company might harvest Day 2 for decades, but the final result would still come.
The mind， both in so far as it understands， and in so far as it imagines， is passive.
The writer is a man who has to live in the world but not be of it.
The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them—preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.