I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

每一次交流都是一种表演。

The true storyteller does not seek to entertain but to awaken the conscience of the reader.