A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Art should be a conversation, not a lecture.

当我们无法改变一种情况时，我们被挑战去改变自己。

To make mistakes is human. To own your mistakes is divine. Nothing elevates a person higher than quickly admitting and taking personal responsibility for the mistakes you make and then fixing them fairly. If you mess up， fess up. It’s astounding how powerful this ownership is.

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.

"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."