When you are young, you think you will be happy when you are older. But then you get older and you realize you were happy when you were young.

作家必须能够监督自己并批判自己。

Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.Discharge your duties faithfully and well.Systematically you get ahead, but not necessarily in fast spurts...At the end of the day if you live long enough most people get what they deserve.

The past is not dead, it is not even past.

A building should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

写作有点像拉屎。如果太费力，那就有问题了。