Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

真正的文学不害怕面对现实，无论现实多么残酷。

The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created—created first in the mind and will, created next in activity.

"The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself."

I don’t need to be perfect, I just need to be better than yesterday.

最深刻的发现往往来自最简单的观察。

Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.

写作是一种不被干扰的说话方式。

翻译：阐述了通晓事物之道的方法，即审视其构造并专心运用。