Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

我们必须接受失望，因为它是有限的，但千万不可失去希望，因为它是无限的。

"The desert teaches patience, silence, and the value of small things."