You’ve got to have models in your head. And you’ve got to array your experience—both vicarious and direct—on this latticework of models. You may have noticed students who just try to remember and pound back what is remembered. Well, they fail in school and in life. You’ve got to hang experience on a latticework of models in your mind.

Every artist was first an amateur.

I think the best way to make a movie is to make it for yourself.

天下武功，唯快不破。

You are no different than anybody else is.

成功不在于你在生活中完成了什么，而在于你激励他人去做什么。

Writing is a way to confront the past.

最难的是理解已经知道的东西。

译文：做好事三年，外人很难知道，做坏事一天就会传遍十里八乡。赏析：人要做很多好事，或许才能积累一点好名声，但只需一件坏事就会让人身败名裂。所以，我们应该谨言慎行。