Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

I'm not afraid of aging. I think it's a privilege to grow old.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

知道自己不知道什么比聪明更有用。

I keep challenging myself because I don't want to repeat.

I cannot but be astonished that Socrates， after having so often repeated to his fellow citizens that he did not pretend to any wisdom， but had been appointed by the gods to a mission of benevolence towards them， should have been condemned to death.

译文：学习、询问、思考、辨析、实践，都是做学问的方法，没有只学习而不实践的。