The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

Man is the measure of all things: of things which are, that they are, and of things which are not, that they are not.

The more specific you are, the more universal you become.

艺术家必须像上帝在创造中一样存在于他的作品中，无形而全能；人们必须处处感受到他，但永远看不到他。

The strength of a nation's institutions is not just in their formal rules, but in the informal norms that govern behavior and the degree to which they are internalized by the population.