我不完美，但我永远是我。

强调盗墓者若贪得无厌必遭反噬，是贯穿系列的核心行规。

Always demand a deadline. A deadline weeds out the extraneous and the ordinary. It prevents you from trying to make it perfect， so you have to make it different. Different is better.

每一次收获都教会我们新的东西；土地是最好的教授，只要我们愿意倾听。

创作意味着冒险失败，但不创作则注定失败。

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.

荒谬是基本概念，也是第一个真理。

You can always juice sales by going down-market, but it's hard to go back upmarket.