The pain of discipline is better than the pain of regret.
自律的痛苦比后悔的痛苦要好。
The past is not a single narrative but a web of interconnected stories.
The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
我认为女性最好的榜样是那些富有成果且自信地做自己的人，他们为世界带来光明。
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.