"The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them."
作家的任务是把主角弄到树上，然后一旦他们上去了，就朝他们扔石头。
The greatest discoveries often come from unexpected places.
The human being cannot live in a condition of emptiness for very long: if he is not growing toward something, he does not merely stagnate; the pent-up potentialities turn into morbidity and despair, and eventually into destructive activities.