The stock market is filled with individuals who know the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

说话是一种冒险，但沉默是更大的冒险。

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.

除非你先是一个读者，否则你不可能成为一个作家。