Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

中原的事业如同江南一样，何必因为六朝的兴衰而怨恨芳草呢？

The only way to get good at something is to fail at it a lot.

Tragic art, as it developed in the theaters of ancient Greece, in the fifth century B.C., was essentially an art form devoted to tracing how people fail, and also according them a level of sympathy, which ordinary life would not necessarily accord them. A few years ago, I was thinking about this, and I went to "The Sunday Sport," a tabloid newspaper I don't recommend you start reading if you're not familiar with it already.

A woman makes a plan—then she makes it happen.

要在传统和偏见的水平之上飞翔的鸟必须有强壮的翅膀。看到这些软弱的人受伤、疲惫、飘动着回到地球上，真是令人伤心。