The only way to find out what you really believe is to write a novel.
There is only so much of fortune a man really needs and the rest is just for showing off.
过去从未真正消失；它在我们今天所做的选择中继续存在。
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
