读书不体验认识，就好像闪电照物，一点都抓不到；读书不能身体力行，就像水上行车、陆上行舟、一点用处都没有。

最终，我们都是故事。重要的是我们如何讲述它们。

要理解我们是谁，我们必须首先理解我们来自哪里。

我成为首相的几率，和在火星上找到猫王，或者我转世成为一颗橄榄的几率差不多。

释义：善于游泳的人容易被淹死，善于骑马的人常常落马而摔伤，他们各因自己的爱好特长而招致灾祸。比喻有专门本领的人往往因自恃而招致灾祸。

真正的自由不是没有束缚，而是在束缚中找到自己的方向。

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.