I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.

  • -- Fiona Shaw 菲奥娜·肖

我没有逃避任何事情,我也不清楚我要奔向什么。但正如一些伟大的作家所说,我想确定,当我到达死亡时,我已经筋疲力尽了。

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I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite so much as that of this first victim in my platoon.

后来我看到许多人死了,有些人死得很惨,但我想不起有谁的死对我的影响比我排的第一个牺牲者更大。

There's no difference between fame and infamy now. There's a new school of professional famous people that don't do anything. They don't create anything.

现在名声和耻辱没有区别了。现在有一群不做任何事的专业名人。他们不创造任何东西。

I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

我想做我自己,做我生来要做的——不是要有一个“职业”,而是要成为一个直截了当、明显无误的动物,一个作家。

I don't know how to do anything else other than be an actor. If I wasn't in this, I would be in alternative energy and conservation.

除了当演员,我不知道还能做什么。如果我不做这个,我就会做替代能源和节能。

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

你所做的一切都无关紧要。但我不确定这是不是做得不好的好借口。

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

我喜欢当作家。我不能忍受的是文书工作。