Legal rules are not self-executing; they require human agency to be effective.

我不想成为冠军。我想成为挑战者。

The artist must be a prisoner of the infinite.

Real suffering does not come from outside, but from how we understand it.

成为一名作家就是在每天的寒冷时分坐在书桌前写作；不等待从胸骨中喷出的蓝色天才火焰。

永远不要问理发师你是否需要理发。