Over the piano was printed a notice: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

译文 ：做学问的人，只要事事留心认真、一丝不苟，德行、学业的进步就会像涓涓流水一样不会终止。

生存不是无所畏惧。而是面对你的恐惧并继续前进。

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

阅读之于心灵，犹如运动之于身体。