The past is a shadow that follows you everywhere.

过去从未死去，它甚至还没有过去。

"The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday."

The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.

Life is a slope.As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.