A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.
说到底,作家只是他书的一半。另一半是读者,作家从读者那里学习。
The propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
"Writing is not a performance, it's a generosity."
Architecture is a very dangerous job. If a writer makes a bad book, well, it's a bad book. But if an architect makes a bad building, it's a bad life.