人生不能像做菜，把所有的料都准备好了才下锅。
Life is not like cooking, where you can prepare all the ingredients before you start cooking.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
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。
社会学的想象力是最富有成果的自我意识形式。
Life is too short to worry about what other people think.