I’m not a follower, I’m a leader.
At that age, I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details, but basically the ad said, every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate, I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days, estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number, I poked my head into the front of the car, tapped my grandmother on the shoulder, and proudly proclaimed, "At two minutes per puff, you've taken nine years off your life!"
Time travel is the most frustrating thing in the world. You can't change anything, and you can't stop anything from happening.
生活的悲剧不是美好的事物早逝,而是它们变老和变得卑鄙。
作家的唯一责任是对他的艺术负责。如果他是个好作家,他会完全无情...如果一个作家必须抢劫他的母亲,他不会犹豫;