The purpose of literature is to disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed.
The great advantage of telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
【释义】令人快乐的事情有很多种类,不能固执地用同一种标准来讨论。
And I went to talk to them about certain of the great tragedies of Western art. I wanted to see how they would seize the bare bones of certain stories, if they came in as a news item at the news desk on a Saturday afternoon.
人的欲望和其他激情,本质上是受到他自己控制的;他真正的困难在于,要知道何时需要加以控制,何时不需要。
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."