If you don’t fail now and again, you’re not trying hard enough.

To write is to confront the chaos of existence and impose some order upon it.

写作的行为是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得这无关紧要，你就不会费心去做。

一定要成功﹗我只以成败论英雄。

世界充满了符号，作家的职责就是解读它们。