A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.

Though love seems the fastest of all growths, it is really the slowest. No man or woman knows what perfect love is, until they have been married a quarter of a century.

过去总是紧张的，未来是完美的。

应对不自由世界的唯一方法是变得如此绝对自由，以至于你的存在本身就是一种反叛。

The first lesson of crisis management is to get ahead of the curve.