The section is the architect’s most revealing drawing.
The novel is the one bright book of life. Books are not life. They are only tremulations on the ether.
Never stop learning—the moment you think you know everything is the moment you start falling behind.
永远不要停止学习——当你认为自己什么都懂的那一刻，就是你开始落后的时刻。
衡量一个文明的标准是它如何对待其作家。
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success.