我们开采的最宝贵资源不是矿物,而是人的潜力。
The best films are those that stay with you long after you've left the theater.
我写小说,人们说那是自传;我写自传,人们说那是小说。既然我这么笨,他们这么聪明,那就让他们决定是什么或不是什么吧。
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.