The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

我们生活的目的是快乐。

If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

最大的风险是不承担任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。