"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

如果你没有合适的人分享，成功毫无意义。

有时候遇到急切之下弄不明白的事情，应当适当宽缓一下，或许自然而然就真相大白了，不要操之过急，那样会使当事人十分恼怒，反而增加了事情的复杂性；有的人急切之下任你怎么劝都不听从，不妨随他的便，不去劝他，他或许自己慢慢就会悔悟，不必要采用强制手段逼迫他听从，那样只能激发他的逆反心理，使他更加冥顽不化。

文学是灵魂的食粮，它滋养我们并让我们成长。

我不在乎你怎么想，除非是关于我的。

The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it’s not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

所以，储备是国家最重要的事；粮食是国家的宝物；武器是国家的利爪；城池是守卫国家的屏障。