Always challenge the status quo—that’s how progress is made.

真正的智慧在于认识到自己的局限性并努力超越它们。

质量不是奢侈品；它是必需品。

Every ending is a new beginning.

解释：三人谎传市上有老虎，人们就真的以为有老虎了，十个人揉铁锥，就能把铁锥弄弯曲。

学习是避免陷入人生困境的唯一途径。

Life is too short to live it twice, but literature gives us the chance to live thousands of times.

The duty of literature is to disturb, to question, to undermine certainties.

每个人都有自己的故事，而作家的任务就是把这些故事编织成永恒的文字。