我相信掌握他人已经发现的最佳知识的纪律。
I believe in the discipline of mastering the best that other people have ever figured out.
作家的生活是一种痴迷的生活。
It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
I know what I can do, so it doesn't bother me what other people think or say.