生活
Literature is a false representation of life that helps us to understand life better.
The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.
It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.
The best stories are those that reflect the complexity of life.
The writer’s life is a life of obsession.
The writer’s life is a life of struggle.
The novel is the great art form of the inner life.
The writer’s life is a life of doubt.
The writer’s life is a life of failure.
The writer is a man who has to live in the world but not be of it.
The writer’s life is a life of solitude.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
You build your life around the fact that you are going to die, and then you don’t die.
The writer’s life is a life of humiliation.
The greatest art is found in the simplest moments of life.
The thing about life is that it's never the way you think it's going to be.
"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."
You build your life around what you fear, and then you spend your life being afraid.
The obsession with running is really an obsession with the potential for more and more life.
The fact remains that getting people right is not what living is all about anyway. It’s getting them wrong that is living, getting them wrong and wrong and wrong and then, on careful reconsideration, getting them wrong again.