A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
听不到门内嬉笑怒骂,可知这家治理严明;座右题写着格言名句,能知此人志趣高雅。