庭院难生千里马，花盆难养万年松，千日造船，只需一日过江，百日付出，只求一时爆发。路在人走，事在人为，但行好事，莫问前程。 - 每日文摘

诀窍是关注你周围发生的事情并继续写作。

The trick is to pay attention to what's happening around you and to keep writing.

乔纳森·弗兰岑

不知不觉中，河岸变得与睡眠差不多低，放眼望去，水田已被一篇莲花覆盖，鲜艳的红色水滴随雨水流下，半溶解的花海在彩霞中无边无际地延伸，抬头仰望，之间峥嵘的山峰在山腹间吐出薄薄的春云。

夏目漱石

你们不要总争自由，自由是外界给你的，你们先要争独立，给你自由你不独立你仍然是奴隶，你要把你身上蒙蔽你的概念和成见，要像剥笋一样一层一层的剥去露出里面他里头很鲜嫩很清的那个劲。

胡适

金鼎合神丹，世人将见欺。飞飞骑羊子，胡乃在峨眉。

陈子昂

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.

我很喜欢圣奥古斯丁在“上帝之城”里的一句话，他说“以社会地位评价人是一种罪”。用现在的口吻说，看一个人的名片来决定你是否要和他交谈是罪。对圣奥古斯丁来说，人的价值不在他的社会地位，只有神可以决定一个人的价值，他将在天使围绕、小号奏鸣，天空破开的世界末日给于最后审判，如果你是像我一样的世俗论者，这想法太疯狂了，但这想法有它的价值。