我不是诗人，我只是一个写歌的人。

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

一个好故事应该在你的灵魂上留下指纹。

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The concept of progress must be grounded in the idea of catastrophe.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

数据是新时代的石油，但比石油更难管控。