One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake.

小说是一面沿着大路携带的镜子。

白色的石头看上去像是玉，奸佞小人看上去像是贤人。这警醒我们要看实质，不要被假象迷惑。

抓住人们做对的事情。

When you don’t know how much to pay someone for a particular task， ask them “what would be fair” and their answer usually is.

艺术家的职责是让不可见的东西变得可见。

There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.