我不是在装酷，我只是在做自己。

我不与他人竞争，我与自己竞争。

我认为小说家的任务是让熟悉的事物变得陌生，让陌生的事物变得熟悉。

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

The labor which it would require to make a single one of these guns by hand would exhaust the patience and perseverance of any ordinary workman.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

可持续增长的关键在于平衡短期收益与长期愿景。

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.