"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.

Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.

In the state of nature, profit is the measure of right.

真正的独角兽不仅仅是估值，而是创造持久的价值。

生命是一份礼物，它赋予我们特权、机会和责任，通过成长来回报。

"文学的力量在于它能够让我们看到自己无法直接体验的生活。"

人迹罕至的路往往是带你回家的路。