"Sex is like money; only too much is enough."

性就像金钱；只有太多才足够。

"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."

一个好故事让我们进入的内心空间是宗教的老公寓。

"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it."

基本的支持和鼓励来自内心，源于一种疯狂的想法，即你的社会需要知道只有你能告诉它的事情。

"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit."

艺术提供的是空间——一种精神的喘息空间。

"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."

梦想会成真；如果没有这种可能性，大自然就不会激励我们去拥有它们。

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding."

真正的纽约人暗中相信，生活在其他地方的人在某种意义上一定是在开玩笑。

"We are most alive when we're in love."

当我们恋爱时，我们最有活力。

"The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers."

不愿满足现状，愿意为了自己的痴迷而冒险过度，这就是艺术家与娱乐人士的区别。

"Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face."

名望是一张会侵蚀面孔的面具。

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."

当我写作时，我的目标不是纽约，而是堪萨斯州以东一个模糊的地方。