在儿童时期没有养成思想的习惯。将使他从此以后一生都没有思想的能力。

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

The power of literature lies in its ability to make us see the world in a new way.

To exist is to have a subjective existence.