"La belleza no es una cualidad de las cosas en sí mismas: existe en la mente que las contempla."
The mind grows by exercise, not by passive absorption.
每本书都是一次旅程,每次旅程都是一本书。
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.
如果你做的很好,这是件令人愉快的事。相反的情况,就很令人沮丧。社会学家Emil,Durkheim分析发现,这提高了自杀率,追求个人主义的发达国家的自杀率,高过于世界上其它地方,原因是人们把发生在自己身上的事情,全当作自己的责任,人们拥有成功,也拥有失败。
"The novel is a way of thinking about the world, a way of understanding the world."
卓越不是一种行为,而是一种习惯。