关上门。写作时不要让别人看着你的肩膀。不要试图弄清楚别人想从你这里听到什么；弄清楚你要说什么。这是你唯一能提供的东西。

To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.

定理是永恒的；它们的证明是短暂的。