If you are looking for something in your house， and you finally find it， when you’re done with it， don’t put it back where you found it. Put it back where you first looked for it.

A good novel tells us the truth about its protagonist; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important.

工作必须先于回报。

The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.

每个作家都是一个梦想家，他们用文字构建自己的世界。

Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.

在生命的复杂舞蹈中，每个基因都有一个角色，每个突变都讲述一个故事。