"To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering."

His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.

孔子说：“如能致富，哪怕是赶车，我也干；如不能，则随我所好。”

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.

我不是怪胎。我生来如此。

我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。