My blindness is not a tragedy, but just another way of seeing.

At that age， I'd take any excuse to make estimates and do minor arithmetic. I'd calculate our gas mileage -- figure out useless statistics on things like grocery spending. I'd been hearing an ad campaign about smoking. I can't remember the details， but basically the ad said， every puff of a cigarette takes some number of minutes off of your life: I think it might have been two minutes per puff. At any rate， I decided to do the math for my grandmother. I estimated the number of cigarettes per days， estimated the number of puffs per cigarette and so on. When I was satisfied that I'd come up with a reasonable number， I poked my head into the front of the car， tapped my grandmother on the shoulder， and proudly proclaimed， "At two minutes per puff， you've taken nine years off your life！"

过去是一个异国他乡；他们做事的方式不同。

"Time is what keeps the light from reaching us."

文学应该作为文学来评判，而不是作为社会文献。

如果因为你的特立独行而在周围人中不受欢迎……那就随他们去吧。

Profitability and responsibility must go hand in hand.