To overcome the anxieties and depressions of contemporary life, individuals must become independent of the social environment to the degree that they no longer respond exclusively in terms of its rewards and punishments.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

Don’t wait for opportunities—create them.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

文学的力量在于它能够揭示我们存在中隐藏的真相。