读古人的著作，与贤能的人交往，最忌讳轻率地表示附和赞同，也不能够轻率地表示异议。之所以会犯这两种过失，都是由于心中缺乏主见，做学问时就掺杂有趋炎附势的成分，不是曲意逢迎便是虚伪矫饰。

The poet’s task is to make the invisible visible.

成功不是终点，失败也并非致命，重要的是继续前进的勇气。

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.