Success is not about being the best, it's about being the most adaptable.

但我爱她，她可以褪色，可以萎谢，怎样都可以；但我只看她一眼，万般柔情，涌上心头。

Writing is the only way I can breathe.

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.