阅读使人充实，谈论使人机敏，写作使人精确。

对你帮助最大的书是那些让你思考最多的书。

I always try to be better than I was yesterday.

60岁生日时对人生的感慨

我是一个喜欢当第一的人。

宇宙不仅比我们想象的更奇怪，它比我们能够想象的还要奇怪。

"I think the job of the novelist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar."

我唯一的优点就是直接从自然中绘画。

I like to tell a story and not explain it.