我在你们这个年龄，最害怕的不是贫穷，而是失败。

The fundamental impulse that sets and keeps the capitalist engine in motion comes from the new consumers' goods, the new methods of production or transportation, the new markets, the new forms of industrial organization that capitalist enterprise creates.

There's poetry in the way light falls on everyday objects.

作家要么是隐居的实践者，要么是内疚的、有过失的人。