人们在遇到别人蛮横无理的时候，往往怒火中烧，可是忽然转眼一想自己也有过错，不知不觉怒气就消失得干干净净。由此看来孟子所强调的自我反省，实在是息事宁人、涵养正气、受益获福、求得身心快乐的最好办法，千万不要当作一般道学家的套话来看待。

Afghanistan is the land of my past, the place where I had laughed and cried, but it was no longer my home.

The story is not in the plot; the plot is what happens, the story is what it means.

在旧制度下，努力工作意味着尽可能少做。

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

理解数学就是理解现实的构造。

I sound my barbaric yawp over the rooftops of the world.

作家必须是世界的敏锐观察者和心灵的深刻思考者。

预测未来的最好方法就是创造它。