每个故事都是一次旅程，不仅对角色如此，对读者也是如此。

那些许诺我们人间天堂的人除了地狱什么都没有搞出来。

Writing is an act of patience, of waiting for the right words to arrive.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

大脑是一台不是为了理解自己，而是为了生存而组装的机器。它是一台做出导致生存的决策的机器。

The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.

如果我失败了，我会再试一次，再试一次，再试一次。如果你失败了，你会再试一次吗？人类的精神可以承受比我们意识到的更糟糕的情况。重要的是你如何结束。你会坚强地结束吗？