"The writer is a man who is always trying to create something new, something original, something that has never been seen before."

The world is full of doors, and every door is a choice.

And America, too, is a delusion, the grandest one of all. The white race believes—believes with all its heart—that it is their right to take the land. To kill Indians. Make war. Enslave their brothers. This nation shouldn’t exist, if there is any justice in the world, for its foundations are murder, theft, and cruelty.

译文：用镜子照自己可以看见形体容貌，用心性照自己，可以遇见祸福吉凶。赏析：以铜为镜可以正衣冠，以心为镜可以知吉凶。我们要努力提高自己的文化修养，砥砺自己的品格，与人为善，人生就会少很多祸患和不祥。

I'm mentioning all this -- I'm mentioning all this because I think this is not merely a personal problem; you may think I'm wrong in this, but I think we live in an age when our lives are regularly punctuated by career crises, by moments when what we thought we knew -- about our lives, about our careers -- comes into contact with a threatening sort of reality.