最高境界的文章，能够通达神明，穷尽天地之理，放之四海而皆准，贯通古今而不变。

人生是一次性的旅行。

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

The most important thing is you must put everybody on notice that you’re here and you are for real. I’m not a player that is just going to come and go. I’m not a player that is going to make an All-Star team one time, two times. I’m here to be an all-time great. Once I made that commitment and said, ‘I want to be one of the greatest ever’, then the game became everything for me.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. Medicine, law, business, engineering: these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love...these are what we stay alive for.

The novel is the great art form of lying in order to tell the truth.