Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

生命的意义在于发现你的天赋。生命的目的是把它奉献出去。

"A novel is never finished; it is only abandoned."

The writer's only responsibility is to his art.

没有远见，建筑就只是简单的建造。

No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.