The writer must be a perpetual dissident, a professional heretic.
作家必须是一个永远的异见者,一个职业的异端。
一个通过征税求繁荣的国家就好像一个缩在桶里想把自己提起来的人。
"The greatest stories are those that linger in the heart long after the last page is turned."
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts, it is nothing without form.
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.