When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to profess things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.
当一个人已经腐化而侮辱了他思想的纯洁，从而宣扬他自己不相信的东西，他已经准备好犯其他任何的罪行。
我们就是自己的恶魔，而且你我让这个世界成了自己的地狱。
最好的谎言是我们对自己说的那些。
What I want to talk to you about today is the difference between gifts and choices. Cleverness is a gift， kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy -- they're given after all. Choices can be hard. You can seduce yourself with your gifts if you're not careful， and if you do， it'll probably be to the detriment of your choices.
"Keep smiling, it makes people wonder what you've been up to."
The core of large-scale farming is standardization, and the prerequisite for standardization is scientization.
The novel is the only art form capable of fully representing human complexity.
写作就是抵抗；创造就是对抗遗忘。