当我写作时，我的目标不是纽约，而是堪萨斯州以东一个模糊的地方。
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.
"A good book is an event in my life."
耳朵是负责听的，听了之后再加以审察，这叫做聪明。