千里之行，始于足下，再近的道路，如果你不走，就永远不能到达；一屋不扫，何以扫天下？再小的事情，你都不去做，何谈成功？

决不要害怕刹那――永恒之声这样唱着。

So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

我不追求名利，只追求内心的满足。

独裁统治滋生糟糕的文学，因为它们滋生恐惧和顺从。