Ask not what your country can do for you --ask what you can do for your country.

阅读的行为和写作的行为一样具有创造性。

"Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it? And isn’t the whole point of things—beautiful things—that they connect you to some larger beauty?"

作家要么是隐居的实践者，要么是内疚的、有过失的人。