晏子春秋

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

The idea is more important than the object.

人类最重要的发明是发明方法本身。

我曾听说过这样一个说法：快乐就是拥有健康和短暂的记忆。我多么希望这是我发明的，因为说得太对了。

The beauty of literature is that it allows us to live a thousand lives, to experience a thousand emotions, all within the span of a single lifetime.

I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley to do Black music so selfishly and use it to get myself wealthy.