"The world is a book, and the book is a prison."

Legal rules are not merely commands backed by threats.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

宇宙是无限多样的。

The writer must be four people: the nut, the obsessor, the stylist, and the critic.

"The past is always with us, whether we acknowledge it or not."

最终，我们都只是故事。

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.