当你开始为了大众吸引力而妥协的那一刻，就是你完蛋的那一刻。

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.

我不是说唱歌手，我是一个玛雅语的传奇。

I write to understand, to grasp, to seize the reality that escapes me.

听取他人的意见，但做出自己的决定。