我想，要是他有钱，穿得好，我会怕他的，但是他很穷；皮短衣的领口露出皱皱巴巴的脏衬衣的领子，裤子上全是污点和补丁，赤脚穿着破鞋。穷人不可怕，也没有危险，外祖母对他们的怜悯和外祖父对他们的蔑视，不知不觉地使我相信了这一点。

Love is a fragile thing. You have to treat it like a living organism or else it’ll disappear.

他说，关于世界的真相是，任何事情都是可能的。如果你不是从出生就看到了这一切，从而失去了它的陌生感，它对你来说就会显得像是一个魔术表演中的帽子戏法，一个发烧的梦，一个充满了既没有类比也没有先例的幻象的恍惚，一个巡回的嘉年华，一个在许多泥泞的田野中多次投掷后最终目的地无法言说且灾难性超出想象的迁徙帐篷表演。

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

科马克·麦卡锡

对那些不成熟的人来说，他们永远都可以找到一些借口，以掩饰他们自身的某些缺点或不幸。

卡耐基

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

心灵就是一切。你想什么就会成为什么。

诺瓦克·德约科维奇

人最终喜爱的是自己的欲望，而不是自己想要的东西。

尼采

我们必须学会再次醒来，并让自己保持清醒，不是靠机械的帮助，而是靠对黎明的无限期望。

张爱玲

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he turn to the novel.

我是个失败的诗人。也许每个小说家最初都想写诗，发现自己做不到后尝试短篇小说——那是仅次于诗歌要求最高的形式。连这个也失败了，他才会转向长篇小说。