快乐是当我们发挥潜能、实现本性时伴随而来的情感。

文学让我们能够旅行到其他世界、其他生活、其他现实。

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

经历一番挫折，才能增长一分见识；经过一些番磨难，才能增一分度量；省一分利益的经营，而多一分道义；能学一分退让，可得一分便宜；去掉一分享受则减少一分罪过；对事物多一分认识，而多一分物情。

让你的梦想成真的最好方式是醒来。

The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.