Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

To write is to confront the ghosts of memory.

关键是不断进步，不断奋斗，不断相信。

The true poet is the one who inspires.

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

It's all about trying to make something that's as complex and as true to life as possible.