Luck， is largely responsible for my reputation for genius. I don’t walk into the office in the morning and say， ‘Am I smart today？’ I walk in and wonder， ‘Am I lucky today？’

你无法预测，但你可以准备。

"To write is to confront your own fears."

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.