做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事。

The work is not the object, but the action.

The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

Writing is a way of fighting against oblivion, against death.

在任何比赛中，自信是关键，但你必须用实力来支撑它。

You don't have to be a rock star to want to change the world.