"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."

I’m not going to die for you, but I’m going to live every day like it’s my last.

真正的文学总会扰乱既定秩序。

And what I noted, since the really big ideas carry 95 percent of the freight, it wasn’t at all that hard for me to pick up all the big ideas and all the big disciplines and make them a standard part of my mental routines. Once you have the ideas, of course, they are no good if you don’t practice. You don’t practice, you lose it.