Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.

The flower is the star, the star is the flower.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

文学的美在于它超越时空的能力。