"Literature is the mirror of society, reflecting its virtues and vices, its hopes and fears."
"The greatest thing in style is to have a command of metaphor."
It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on.
故事不在情节中；情节是你用来捕捉故事的网。
The sense of smell is directly connected to the emotional centers of the brain, which is why smells can evoke such strong memories.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.