你必须愿意经常犯错；这没什么不对的。迈克尔教会我做出最佳判断，犯错，再做出下一个最佳判断，再犯错，做出第三个最佳判断，然后让你的资金翻倍。

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时刻坐在桌前写作；不是等待从胸骨中迸发出天才的蓝色火焰——只是写作。

最大的风险是不冒任何风险。在一个快速变化的世界里，唯一注定失败的策略就是不冒险。