创作行为并不纯粹。历史证明了这一点。社会学提取了它。作家失去了伊甸园，写作是为了被阅读，并逐渐意识到他是需要负责的。

I love the feeling of hitting a ball harder than I’ve ever hit before.

Dictatorships breed bad literature because they breed fear and conformity.

"Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."

【译文】 孔子说：“对品德不进行培养，对学问不进行钻研，听到好人好事不能跟着做，有了错误不能及时改正，这就是我所担忧的。”

现代生活最深刻的问题源于个人在面对压倒性的社会力量、历史遗产、外部文化和生活技术时，要求保持其存在的自主性和个性。