唯一的限制是你给自己设定的限制。

阅读的艺术在于明智地跳过。

The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

可以同他交谈却没有交谈，这是错过了人才。不可以同他交谈却要同他交谈，这是白费口舌。聪明的人既不错过人才，又不浪费语言。

The best literature is born from conflict, from the struggle between desire and morality.

Profit without purpose is empty; purpose without profit is unsustainable.

I do not like proper novels. In proper novels people say things like, ‘I am veined with iron, with silver and with streaks of common mud. I cannot contract into the firm fist which those clench who do not depend on stimulus.’ What does this mean? I do not know. Nor does Father. Nor do the people who write these books.