小说的目的是让你走出自己的生活，意识到其他人的生活。

Friends can come and go, but banners hang forever.

The bond market is the ultimate gauge of market sentiment.

"We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way."

I'm the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.

The biggest challenge in life is being yourself in a world that's trying to make you like everyone else.

数学推理可以相当系统地看作是两种能力的结合运用，我们可以称之为直觉和独创性。

我并不完美，我也不假装完美。

释义：善良如同四季常青的松树，邪恶如同娇艳的花朵。从表面上看，花朵似乎比松树更美丽，但当遇到风霜时，松树依然挺立，而花朵却凋零了。

To me, fearless is not the absence of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death.