我不能也不愿生活在谨慎的世界里，至少作为作家不行。我向你保证，我宁愿如此——那样生活会更容易。但不幸的是，谨慎不适合小说家。
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.
保持谦逊，保持渴望。
活着是世界上最罕见的事情。大多数人只是存在，仅此而已。
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.
The past is a mirror, but we often see only what we want to see.
A physical symbol system has the necessary and sufficient means for general intelligent action.