Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
写小说并不仅仅是一次跨越边境的购物之旅，而是在想象中的工厂、街道和大教堂里度过数小时甚至数年的时间。
A LITTLE ENCOURAGEMENT
给此刻的你，一点向前的力量。
关于学习、善意与成长，读一句，再想一想。
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.
大多数人死的时候，他们的音乐还藏在心里。
One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.
一个人在学校、大学、医学院和实习期间，学到的关于善良的东西很少，或者根本没有，但关于成功的东西却很多。