“when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric” I know what he meant I know what he wanted: to be completely alive every moment in spite of the inevitable. we can’t cheat death but we can make it work so hard that when it does take us it will have known a victory just as perfect as ours.”

“but would you know yourself if you weren’t burning”

“Things just went wrong too many times.”

「關上門。拂去塵埃。不再做過去的自己，變成真正的自己。」 "Close the door. Remove the dust. Stop being who you were, and change into who you are."

“You write the beginning and then you go back and rewrite the beginning, and you never got off page one. It’s kind of a syndrome, and I have a rash piece of advice which is — Go on, page two, page three, and never look back. Get something finished, no matter how lousy it is. […] Perfectionists cannot get going unless they kind of do violence to their own instincts, and just blast ahead.”