When you get an invitation to do something in the future， ask yourself: would you accept this if it was scheduled for tomorrow？ Not too many promises will pass that immediacy filter.

作家的职责不仅是讲故事，还要揭示隐藏在日常生活表面下的真相。

"The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success."

我相信爱的力量和音乐改变生活的力量。

骄傲是普遍的罪恶，是最大的恶习。

诗人是一个种下一棵树然后坐在它的树荫下的人。

当你改变时，世界也会改变。

思考就是雕塑。

I’m not a theorist. I’m not an intellectual. I go by my nose.