我写作是为了理解这个世界，给它一个形状，一个形式。
Talent without working is nothing.
"I have always liked the phrase 'nursing a grudge,' because many people are tender of their resentments, as of the thing nearest their hearts."
I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.