"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

爱自己是一生浪漫的开始。

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."

我们都是孤独的，生来孤独，死去孤独，尽管有真实的浪漫杂志，总有一天我们会回顾我们的生活，看到尽管有伴侣，我们一直都是孤独的。

"The only way to escape the mundane is for you to constantly be evolving."

逃避平庸的唯一方法就是不断进化。

"Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end."

生活不是一系列对称排列的灯光；生活是一个光晕，一个半透明的信封，从意识的开始到结束都包围着我们。

"One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing."

要读得好，必须成为一个发明家。既有创造性的阅读，也有创造性的写作。

"The past is always tense, the future perfect."

过去总是紧张的，而未来是完美的。

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."

没有道德或不道德的书，只有写得好或写得差的书。

"We do not write to be understood; we write in order to understand."

我们写作不是为了被理解，而是为了理解。

"Memory is the only paradise from which we cannot be driven."

记忆是我们无法被驱逐的唯一天堂。

"The future is a concept—it exists only in our minds."

未来是一个概念——它只存在于我们的脑海中。