生活就像在博物馆里走过场，要过一阵子你才开始吸收你的所见，思考它们，读书了解它们，记忆它们——因为你不能一下子全部消化。

最深刻的艺术往往产生于传统与创新之间的张力。

"The most dangerous phrase in business is 'We've always done it this way.'"

"A writer must be a rebel against all forms of oppression, both visible and invisible."

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.