眼睛看百步以内的东西，尚且没法看得一清二楚，而要把自己看见的就认为是实际有的，没有看见的就认为是没有的，这样的话天下所没有的东西，可就多了。

I’m not afraid to take the road less traveled.

写作的行为是一种勇气的行为，是对宇宙沉默的挑战。

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.