The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.
Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
When you can live forever, what do you live for?
The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels.
有独创性的作家，除非死了，否则总是令人震惊、令人愤慨的；新奇的事物会扰乱和排斥。