When you are young spend at least 6 months to one year living as poor as you can， owning as little as you possibly can， eating beans and rice in a tiny room or tent， to experience what your “worst” lifestyle might be. That way any time you have to risk something in the future you won’t be afraid of the worst case scenario.

我试图创造不评判的作品。

我不是来讨人喜欢的，我是来做我的工作的。

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

The writer is the natural enemy of the state, because the state is based on lies and the writer is based on truth.

Every thought serves some biological purpose.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

在数学中，提出问题的艺术必须比解决问题更有价值。

I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack.