我不是在试图变得完美，我只是在做我自己。
I'm not trying to be perfect, I'm just trying to be myself.
美国正在经历政治衰败的危机，其机构越来越功能失调，无法应对国家的挑战。
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
El arte es la única manera de escapar sin dejar de estar.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.