作家的角色是质疑而非安慰。

译文：年轻人不要去嘲笑老人，你看花儿能红透到什么时候。赏析：每个人都会经历人生的起起落落，每个人都会衰老死去，不要因为自己一时的得势就去嘲笑别人，不能因为自己获得一时的成功就骄傲自大。

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

人は、自分のために生きるのではなく、誰かのために生きることで、初めて自分らしさを見つけることができる。

The challenge in theoretical computer science is not just to solve problems, but to understand the nature of problem-solving itself.