The true measure of our success in farming will be what we leave in the soil, not just what we take from it.

如果你不固执，就会过早放弃试验。如果你不灵活，就会头撞南墙，而无法另辟蹊径解决当下难题。

作家必须甘于冒险。

最大的器物最晚完成，最大的声音几乎没有声响，最大的形象没有形状。

I don’t want to be famous; I want to be good at what I do.

You can obsess about serving your customers/audience/clients， or you can obsess about beating the competition. Both work， but of the two， obsessing about your customers will take you further.

Life is about creating yourself.

Literature is the only drug that allows us to temporarily escape reality.