赏析：指出知道满足的人不会被利益所累，真正安闲自得的人不会因为失去而恐惧，注重内心修养的人不会因为没有地位而惭愧。

证券交易所是圣杯的糟糕替代品。

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

You can only find out what you actually believe (rather than what you think you believe) by watching how you act. You simply don’t know what you believe, before that. You are too complex to understand yourself.

我准备向他提出一个他不可能拒绝的条件。

The things we don’t say shape us as much as the things we do.