No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

没有天赋的艺术家什么都不是，但没有工作的天赋也什么都不是。

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.

最好的胜利是那些看似不可能的胜利。

小说不仅仅是一个故事，而是一面反映人性复杂性的镜子。

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.