I'm not good at pretending. I'm not good at lying. I'm not good at being something I'm not.

艺术家必须是未知的朝圣者。

一个人读什么样的书，就是什么样的人。

If you ask an economist what’s driven economic growth, it’s been major advances in things that mattered – the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Childhood is the first and last frontier of literature.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.