我唯一能做的就是写作。其他一切都让我感到无聊。
Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
做出伟大工作的唯一方法就是热爱你所做的事。