It is not from the benevolence of the butcher， the brewer， or the baker， that we expect our dinner， but from their regard to their own self-interest.
我们不能借着肉贩，啤酒商或面包师的善行而获得晚餐，而是源于他们对自身利益的看重。
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
这句话杨在不同场合说过多次，每次表述时可能有个别字的差异。
小说中的每一个字都是迈向理解人类状况的一步。
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.