写作是一种生活方式，一种存在于世界的方式。

That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.

The act of writing is an act of hope.

大陆就像漂浮在密度更大的岩石海洋上的冰山。

You have to believe in yourself, even when no one else does.

你不是通过遵循规则学会走路的。你是通过实践和跌倒学会的。