What is a writer but a shaman who uses words instead of rattles and drums?
作家不过是一个用文字代替摇鼓和鼓声的萨满。
I'm not going to compare myself to anybody. I'm going to do the best I can do. I'm going to work hard every day to be the best that I can be.
Society can and does execute its own mandates， and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right， or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle， it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression， since， though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties， it leaves fewer means of escape， penetrating much more deeply into the details of life， and enslaving the soul itself.
最好的故事是无法被单一解释所包含的故事。