我们都在阴沟里，但仍有人仰望星空。
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
晏子春秋
"The wild is not a place. It is a season."
我一直是个注重隐私的人。
Writing about crime is really writing about society's fractures and failings.
宇宙的美在于它的复杂性和简单性。
Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.
"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.Literary and Other Notes I, Woman’s World （November 1887）