"The past is the past, but the future is a blank canvas."
过去已成过去，但未来是一张白纸。
Mental tranquility is the highest good.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
El arte de la novela consiste en contar lo que no se puede contar.
I don't think in terms of genre when I'm working.
The surface of a painting is like a skin - it holds everything together.
The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering but in the development of the soul.