I don’t think you should spend much time being unhappy about the bad breaks. You get a lot of them, but you also get a lot of good ones. The thing to do is just to maximize your odds of using the good ones and minimizing the effects of the bad ones.

I don't really care what people say about me. I know who I am.

嫉妒不是爱的标志，而是对失去有价值关系的威胁的防御。

人的状况...是一种每个人对每个人的战争状况。

残酷的不是这个世界，而是世界里的人。

市场总是在变化，你必须能够适应。

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.