I have a vivid memory of what happened， and it was not what I expected. I expected to be applauded for my cleverness and arithmetic skills. "Jeff， you're so smart. You had to have made some tricky estimates， figure out the number of minutes in a year and do some division." That's not what happened. Instead， my grandmother burst into tears. I sat in the backseat and did not know what to do. While my grandmother sat crying， my grandfather， who had been driving in silence， pulled over onto the shoulder of the highway. He got out of the car and came around and opened my door and waited for me to follow. Was I in trouble？ My grandfather was a highly intelligent， quiet man. He had never said a harsh word to me， and maybe this was to be the first time？ Or maybe he would ask that I get back in the car and apologize to my grandmother. I had no experience in this realm with my grandparents and no way to gauge what the consequences might be. We stopped beside the trailer. My grandfather looked at me， and after a bit of silence， he gently and calmly said， "Jeff， one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever."

如果你总是生气或抱怨，人们就不会有时间理你。

The bike is my life. I ride it to work, I ride it for fun, I ride it to race, and I ride it to stay alive.

爱情不需要理由。它来自心灵非理性的智慧。

"To be foreign is to be always slightly out of step."

小说是所有艺术形式中最民主的，因为它只依赖于读者的想象力。

优秀的侦探听比说多。

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.