Our ideas of what we believe to be， are not of what they are， but only of what they seem to be.
我们所相信的观念，并非是事物真实的本质，而只是它们表面的样貌。
Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.
The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.
"The characters in my books are often people who are struggling to find their place in the world."