阅读教会我们的第一课是如何独处。

Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

我爱您是不可以数量计算的。

能正确指出我缺点的人，是我的好老师；能赞成又能鞭策我的人，是我的好朋友；谄媚又阿谀奉承我的人，是害我的贼寇。

There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. Then a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I want to talk to him. I want to try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I got to live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word. So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, truth alone is lovely.

在采石行业的成功不仅仅是开采石头；它关乎理解土地并尊重其极限。

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.