My past doesn't define me, it refines me.
Hustle hard, die empty.
Never stop learning—the moment you do, you start falling behind.
The artist must be a bridge between the visible and the invisible.
沉默并不总是缺席;有时它是最响亮的存在。
The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.
每本小说的第一句话应该是:“相信我,这需要时间,但这里有秩序,非常微弱,非常人性化。”