The best literature is that which challenges us, which makes us think, which forces us to confront the uncomfortable truths of our existence.
最好的文学是挑战我们、让我们思考、迫使我们面对存在的不舒服真相的文学。
Don't be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.
You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame, back home to exile, to escape to Europe and some foreign land, back home to lyricism, to singing just for singing's sake, back home to aestheticism, to one's youthful idea of 'art' and beauty, back home to the ivory tower, back home to places in the country, to the cottage in Bermuda, away from all the strife and conflict of the world, back home to the father you have lost and have been looking for, back home to someone who can help you, save you, ease the burden for you, back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of Time and Memory.
We’re here to put a dent in the universe. Otherwise why else even be here?
I'm trying to grow up and not let things get to me