The most successful products are often the simplest solutions to everyday problems.

The historian’s task is to understand the past, the novelist’s to make it live.

True innovation requires taking risks.

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.

"To write is to explore the unknown territories of the human soul."

文字是唯一永恒的东西；其他一切都会消亡。