Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it.

Not necessarily your mother, or indeed mine, but, as it were, the ideal mother, somebody who doesn't care about your achievements. Unfortunately, most people are not our mothers. Most people make a strict correlation between how much time, and if you like, love -- not romantic love, though that may be something -- but love in general, respect --they are willing to accord us, that will be strictly defined by our position in the social hierarchy.

写作是一种反叛的行为，一种表示我们不接受世界现状的方式。

The market rewards those who are patient and disciplined.

Law is not a system of rules, but a system of principles.