The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
书籍是镜子，但它们也是窗户。
如果同情心的一个极端，是这些八卦小报。另一个极端便是悲剧和悲剧艺术，我想说的是或许我们该从悲剧艺术中学习，你不会说汉姆雷特是个失败者，虽然他失败了，他却不是一个失败者。我想这就是悲剧所要告诉我们的，也是我认为非常重要的一点。
真正的教师会保护学生免受他个人影响。他激发自我怀疑。他将他们的目光从自己身上引导到激发他的精神上。他不会有门徒。
A writer must be stubborn, must have a vocation of sacrifice, and must accept that literature is a very cruel mistress.
I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.
不自律的人是没有自由的。