最重要的是你要有一个北极星，你必须知道自己要去哪里。
The great ideological battles between liberalism and communism, or between democracy and authoritarianism, have been replaced by a general consensus on the desirability of liberal democracy.
"A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers."
Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.