If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

小说是人类处境的伟大艺术形式。

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

所有事情在被证明为不可能之前都是可能的，甚至不可能的事情也可能只是目前如此。

The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

最困难的是决定行动，剩下的只是坚持。

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.