I must confess that I never could see any beauty in her. Her face is too thin; her complexion has no brilliancy; and her features are not at all handsome. Her nose wants character; there is nothing marked in its lines. Her teeth are tolerable, but not out of the common way; and as for her eyes, which have sometimes been called so fine, I could never see anything extraordinary in them.

布施出去的很少，希望得到的回报却很多，这样的话，别人就不敢接受你的布施了。

Poetry must always have a moral purpose; it should instruct while it delights.

Never compromise on quality. It's the foundation of everything we do.

The first erroneous assumption is that quality means goodness, or luxury, or shininess, or weight.

小说是捕捉人类状况的最雄心勃勃的尝试。

成为作家就是成为生活的间谍。

家庭的纽带比任何挑战都更强大。

Every story has the potential to be great if it's told with heart.