The desire to be a servant had been bred into me: bone, blood, and skin.

性格是一个人习惯的总和。

The novel is a great discovery: far greater than Galileo's telescope or somebody else's wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.

艺术是交流的工具。

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

度过生活的唯一方法就是笑着度过。你要么笑，要么哭。我更喜欢笑。哭会让我头疼。

艺术家必须是无限的影子。

The writer’s duty is to rebel, to resist, to never be complacent.

The way she saw it, being free was nothing more than a hustle.

With great tools comes great responsibility—especially when those tools can alter life itself.