Prophesying was the only human art that couldn't be improved by practice.
预言是人类唯一一项无法由重复练习而进步的技术。
Being able to do what you love for a living is a blessing.
爱不是一种职业,它是一种状态。
Society can and does execute its own mandates, and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
小说应该是一本问题的书,而不是答案的书。
I'm not here to be perfect; I'm here to be real.
Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.