The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.

"The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts."

Life has to be given a meaning because of the obvious fact that it has none.

我不断地看到有些人在生活中越过越好，他们不是最聪明的，甚至不是最勤奋的，但他们是学习机器，他们每天夜里睡觉时都比那天早晨聪明一点点。