欲心正炽时，一念着病，兴似寒冰；利心正炽时，一想到死，味同嚼蜡。
纵欲之心正炽烈时，一想到将会卧病痛苦，兴致如寒冰；逐利之心正浓烈时，一想到将会命丧黄泉，味道如同嚼蜡。
The more you know, the less you need.
文化生态学的研究需要一种整体方法，考虑影响社会的自然和文化因素。
它美丽而简单，就像所有真正伟大的骗局一样。
小说是对人类现实最完整、最复杂、最深刻的表达形式。
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.