我们在童年时读的书就像一个秘密花园,一个我们可以逃离和梦想的地方。
"I love the pressure. I love the big moments."
爱所有人,信任少许人,误伤任何人。
我喜欢挑战自己。
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
"Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography."
The old-fashioned dictator does not exist under scientific management. The man at the head of the business under scientific management is governed by rules and laws which have been developed through hundreds of experiments just as much as the workman is.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
"Language is the key to understanding the world and connecting with others."