每次我写一本书，每次我面对那张空白页，我都确信我做不到。
Every time I write a book, every time I face that blank page, I’m convinced that I can’t do it.
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.
我想起我那堆旧平装书，书页已经变得松软，仿佛它们曾经属于大海。
每当有人逝去，总有少数的人们会想到：许多事情被忽略了，许多事情还未来得及去做；多少事情给遗忘了，而更多事情已无法弥救——足可见，平素对待周围的人们需用心才是；没有什么是比追悔莫及更令人懊丧的了；请让我们趁早记住这个理吧，以免受那样的痛苦。
Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.