"A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead."

最好的投资是对人及其潜力的投资。

To write is to give oneself over to the world, to let the world in, and to let it change you.

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

"Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed."

如果你有梦想的话，就要去捍卫它。那些一事无成的人想告诉你你也成不了大器。如果你有理想的话，就要去努力实现。就这样。