Leadership is about making tough decisions and standing by them.

恐惧是不可避免的，我必须接受这一点，但我不能让它使我瘫痪。

The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.

The idea that we will make a society where literally everybody is graded, the good at the top, bad at the bottom, exactly done as it should be, is impossible. There are simply too many random factors: accidents, accidents of birth, accidents of things dropping on people's heads, illnesses, etc. We will never get to grade them, never get to grade people as they should.