我们都是一门手艺的学徒，没有人能成为大师。

The most perfect education, in my opinion, is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart.

真相有时是残酷的。

写作就是呼吸，呼吸就是生活。

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

住宅是居住的机器。