即使是一个愚蠢的人，在大多数事情上仍然可以是正确的。大多数传统的智慧都是真的。

你不需要完美的声音来打动人们；你只需要用心歌唱。

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 take up novel writing.