"It's not generally realized that all writers, even the greatest, are also readers first and last."

To men like that, time was a surfeit, a barrel they watched slowly drain. When really, he thinks, it’s a glowing puddle you carry in your hands; you should spend all your energy protecting it.

Your life changes the moment you make a new, congruent, and committed decision.

Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.

以合理的价格投资优异的公司胜于以优异的价格投资平庸的公司。