I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life. To put to rout all that was not life. And not, when I had come to die, discover that I had not lived.

写作是一种乐观的行为。如果你觉得它不重要，你就不会费心去做。

我们安然入睡，是因为粗野的人们在夜晚准备好对伤害我们的人施以暴力。