I don’t feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.
我不觉得有必要确切地知道我是谁。生活和工作的主要兴趣在于成为你最初不是的另一个人。
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
The historian is a prophet looking backward.
看遍了世间的人情冷暖,才认识到旷达洒脱的可贵;尝遍了世间的种种滋味,才知道清净淡泊的真切内涵。
文学的研究即是对生活本身的研究。