我不是为读者写作，我是反对读者写作。

Hunger and poverty are the root causes of much of the world's unrest and misery.

群众没有能力理解复杂的问题。

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

译文：不该得到的名利，竟然得到了，看似是福，实则终将转变为祸事；贫穷和困境最让人难以忍耐承受，但能耐住它，一定会苦尽甘来。赏析：祸兮福所倚、福兮祸所伏。祸福可以相互转换。孟子说，天降大任于斯人，必先苦其心志，劳其筋骨，饿其体肤，才能增益其所不能。如果名利来得太早，并不是好事，来得快也去得快。

The novel is the art of making the private public, the personal universal.

The investor's chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.

Jazz taught me freedom, but life taught me soul.