也许醒来还是好的，即使痛苦，总比一辈子都被愚弄去幻想要好。
Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life.
译文：人的福分，并不是靠外在的条件和环境得来的，而是取决于自己内心的修养和行为。只有把握好自己的内心，才能获得真正的幸福和成功。
The moment eternal—just that and nothing more.
"You have to be paranoid to survive."
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
"We are most alive when we're in love."