"Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit."

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

过去总是与我们同在，但它不必定义我们的未来。

The writer's secret is not inspiration—for it is never clear where it comes from—but stubbornness, endurance.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.