A novel is not just a story; it is a constructed object, an artifice that must be as perfect as possible.

"To write is to breathe freely in a world that constantly tries to suffocate truth."

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.

最可持续的竞争优势就是比竞争对手学得更快。