作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的，他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
每种心理状态都有其存在的目的；要理解它，我们必须询问它在更广泛的行为系统中发挥什么功能。
孔子说：“有一种人，不了解情况就冒然行事，我不会这样。多听，向先进人物学习；多看，把细节牢记在心。就是掌握知识的最好方法。”
There are other reasons --There are other reasons why it's perhaps harder now to feel calm than ever before. One of these, and it's paradoxical, because it's linked to something that's rather nice, is the hope we all have for our careers. Never before have expectations been so high about what human beings can achieve with their life span.
He was a man who had always been too proud to ask for help, and now he was too proud to accept it.