金钱会说话，废话请走开。

You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person in the world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.

Writing is a way of bearing witness to the world.

一下子考中金榜题名，但没有十年的努力不可能官至宰相。