All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
La buena literatura siempre deja preguntas, nunca da respuestas absolutas.
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice and is stuck with it. But it is true to say that you are open to all the winds, some of them icy indeed. You are out on your own, out on a limb. You find no shelter, no protection — unless you lie — in which case of course you have constructed your own protection and, it could be argued, become a politician.
Out of my own great woe I make my little songs.
我喜欢把自己看作一个风格家。
只为三个国家制造不值得我花费时间;但为全世界制造则非常值得。
世界和生命是一体的。