The ocean doesn’t belong to us; we belong to the ocean. Our responsibility is to nurture it.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

记忆是个奇怪的东西。它的运作方式和我所想的不同。我们如此受时间束缚，受其顺序约束。

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one... If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.