我不能也不愿生活在谨慎的世界里，至少作为作家不行。我向你保证，我宁愿如此——那样生活会更容易。但不幸的是，谨慎不适合小说家。
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.
When something terrible happens people wake up.
译文：少年不知道早起勤奋学习，到老了后悔读书少就太迟了。赏析：人在年轻时，精力旺盛，正是勤奋读书，努力奋斗的时候。
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes."