"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
作家必须相信他所做的是世界上最重要的事情。即使他知道这不是真的,他也必须坚持这种幻觉。
I love the mystery of the ocean.
I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with authority.
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Learning is not simply the accumulation of knowledge but the transformation of understanding.