选自《盐铁论·孝养》。距：通“拒”。【大意】拒绝接受别人意见的视听闭塞，自己独断专行的就会遭到孤立。

If you never want to be criticized， for goodness' sake don't do anything new.

我信奉老派作风——写经得起时间考验的歌。

Writing about crime is really writing about society's fractures and failings.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

诗人是个伪装者。他伪装得如此彻底，以至于假装成他真正感受到的痛苦。