Agriculture is the foundation of manufacture and commerce.

文学是一种抵抗的形式，一种表明并非一切都已失去的方式。

我不想只做一个歌手。我想成为一个表演者。

To be a writer, one must have a certain arrogance, a belief that one's own voice is worth hearing.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

The only true voyage of discovery would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others.

要成为一名作家，必须有一定的傲慢，相信自己要说的话对别人来说足够重要。