对年轻人的适当教育不在于将大量从不同作者那里拖来的词语、句子和想法塞进他们的头脑，而在于打开他们对外部世界的理解。

I don't follow the rules; I make them.

解释：我听说过用忠心善行来减少怨恨，没听说过摆出威严的架势来防止怨恨。

"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.

真正的作家不是为了名声而写作，而是为了表达内心的真实。

The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction... The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced.

The novel is a mirror walking down the road.

这一切，以及那数不清的眼神与微笑，数不清的思想和言语，我都想一一记录下来。