你必须愿意冒险，走出你的舒适区。
You have to be willing to take risks and step out of your comfort zone.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect， so you have to make it different. Different is better.
Challenges are opportunities in disguise; embrace them and grow stronger.
——2008年2月19日在斯坦福大学演讲
I think we have gone through a period when too many children and people have been given to understand 'I have a problem, it is the Government's job to cope with it!' or 'I have a problem, I will go and get a grant to cope with it!' 'I am homeless, the Government must house me!' and so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first.
创作行为并不纯粹。历史证明了这一点。社会学提取了它。作家失去了伊甸园，写作是为了被阅读，并逐渐意识到他是需要负责的。