I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity.

  • -- Chaim Potok 小说家波图克

我认为,大多数严肃的作家,当然是在现代,用他们自己的生活,或他们身边的人的生活,或他们听说过的生活作为创作的原材料。

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So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

所以,让我们对自己诚实一点,不要把自己看得太严肃,永远不要因为别人每天做的事情而责备他,只是用不同的方式罢了。

Uh, I just had an operation last March which was rather serious and I'm recuperating now. I'm on a very bland diet. But, uh, I'm lucky, I was just lucky, that's all.

嗯,我去年三月刚做了一次手术,手术很严重,现在正在康复。我的饮食很清淡。但我很幸运,我只是很幸运,仅此而已。

For every failure, there's an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.

每一次失败,都有另一种选择。你只需要找到它。当你遇到路障时,绕道而行。

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.

创造力——就像人类的生命一样——始于黑暗。