天才是由于对事业的热爱感而发展起来的，简直可以说天才，就其本质而论只不过是对事业、对工作过程的热爱而已。 - 每日文摘

什么是脸面，我们干大事的从来不要脸，脸皮可以撕下来扔到地上，踹几脚，扬长而去，不屑一顾！

严介和

事实是，我以前不知道怎么去看待事物！

安托万·德·圣-埃克苏佩里

我已经写够了这个世界，此刻让这个世界来写我吧！

尼采

每个艺术家都是食人族，每个诗人都是小偷。他们都扼杀自己的灵感，歌唱悲伤。

Every artist is a cannibal, every poet is a thief. All kill their inspiration and sing about the grief.

U2乐队

如果你没有失败，说明你不够努力。

If you're not failing, you're not trying hard enough.

西奥·帕菲特

Wholly unprepared, we embark upon the second half of life. Or are there perhaps colleges for forty-year-olds which prepare them for their coming life and its demands as the ordinary colleges introduce our young people to a knowledge of the world? No, thoroughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.

我们完全手足无措地踏上生命的后半征程。普通大学把年轻人引入知识世界，什么学校能让四十几岁人为未来生活做好准备？没有这种学校，我们完全无备地踏入后半生；而更糟的是，我们假定现实和理想会一如既往地效忠于我们。但实际上，我们不能依照生命之晨，来度过生命之午后，因为晨时的伟大会成为傍晚时的琐碎，而晨时的真理会在傍晚变为谎言。