However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matter that you don’t just give up.

因果框架是科学推理的基础。

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.