The best leaders are those who listen more than they speak, and act more than they promise.

You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripple for change.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.

我写作是为了探索语言和经验的边界。

最好的艺术作品是那些消失在生活中的作品。

A non-moral use of a term does not necessarily tell us what the term means.

Courage is a virtue necessary not only in war, but in life as well.