If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
"The novel is a mirror that reflects the complexities of human existence."
At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.
The only time I know that something is true is at the moment I discover it in the act of writing.
一個(gè)人是他思想的產(chǎn)物，他想什么，就會(huì)成為什么。
2001：貝索斯致股東信《我們始終堅(jiān)持現(xiàn)金流為王》
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
在空閑的時(shí)候不做準(zhǔn)備，危急的時(shí)候卻臨時(shí)抱佛腳。國(guó)家發(fā)生戰(zhàn)亂時(shí)，才想到有名的將領(lǐng)；家庭貧困時(shí)才希望能有個(gè)賢惠的妻子。